• BJ_and_the_bear@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    USA should just nationalize Intel, if it’s actually as important to national security as they say. Left to their own devices they will self destruct

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      18 days ago

      The ideal state is some kind of bastardized hybrid, federally funded and guided but still private.

      This is how TSMC rose.

      It’s also kinda how Samsung Foundry exists, with how Samsung is so giant and tied to SK politics that’s it blurs the line with the govt.

      Trump is going in the opposite direction unfortunately, regulating the shit out of them in terms of policy (tariffs, politics), yet yanking grants and “freeing” the government of them.

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      18 days ago

      To expand on what others said, there has been tons of corporate dysfunction at Intel.

      Some hardware efforts have gone pretty well, and had decent long-term trajectories but were sabotaged by direction changes or early cuts from up high. There seems to be some corporate “game of thrones” going on between branches too, and a lot of redundancy on the software dev side.

      AMD has a similar issue actually, and it’s starting to bite, especially on the GPU side.