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539 points maguay | 5 comments | 26 Aug 25 10:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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simne ◴[26 Aug 25 21:40 UTC] No.45032660[source]▶
I really wonder, why so much noise about this case. I agree, semiconductors are extremely important in current world, but did you know, Volkswagen AG is partially owned by State of Lower Saxony (~ 11.8%)?

Also worth to remember cases of Rolls-Royce, Ericsson, and some other unfortunate Western companies, important for many humans, but once became unable to stay economically viable. (BTW it make me laugh, when I got info, Bentley now under WAG, when RR under BMW, as technically, they many decades was one entity)

WAG case is different from Intel case (and other I mention), but there are also many similarities, because of which I think, Intel case may be special for US, but is not too special for West.

And I think, such cases are bad, they are great shame, but also they are signs, we must do something, to make Western produced semiconductors more competitive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Group

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1. bdangubic ◴[26 Aug 25 21:42 UTC] No.45032669[source]▶
we must do something, to make Western produced semiconductors more competitive.

and letting Federal Government in on this is sure to make this happen - just like everything else being ran by the Federal Government

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2. CharlieDigital ◴[26 Aug 25 21:47 UTC] No.45032743[source]▶
To be fair, US government is pretty good at strategic weapons; best in history. So if you view chips through that maybe it all works out.
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3. simne ◴[26 Aug 25 22:10 UTC] No.45032982[source]▶
> just like everything else being ran by the Federal Government

Well, I don't like when something ran by Federal Government, but I have similar example: when somebody ill by flu, I don't like to use antibiotics, but sometimes must use antibiotics as fast measures to save life.

That is. Previous pro-semiconductor measures was not fast enough, and Intel was in real trouble and need to use something fast, and now we have bought time to do right but slow things.

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4. bdangubic ◴[26 Aug 25 22:21 UTC] No.45033087[source]▶
antibiotics work albeit being shitty for you in the long run. gov never works in short or long term (and especially long term since every 4 to 8 years everything one party did the other one destroys the day after inauguration)
5. bdangubic ◴[26 Aug 25 22:25 UTC] No.45033115[source]▶
this is being ran at about 9,800% waste which is why our department of offense budget is equal to 976 GDPs of Germany… very very bad example