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Intel might be too big to fail — Washington policymakers are already discussing potential solutions if the chipmaker cannot recover (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago (14 children)

💪letting it fail anyway 👍

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (12 children)

Is it really a good idea to let Taiwan and Samsung control all semiconductor manufacturing?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 children)

Yes. Not Samsung but Taiwan. It would force the us to not tiptoe around China.

Also Intel is one of many, maybe the biggest name but for a Long time not the biggest player at all.

Ever read the name AMD? The ones actually behind x86 64bit and many other things?

Nvidia (even though they invest to much into a double that will pop)

ARM?

Texas instruments?

Bosh?

There is more than enough without intel.

*Apple

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I didn't think any of those companies did any manufacturing. Are we talking about the same thing? My understanding was there was only three names in manufacturing (the ones I mentioned)

What do you mean by it would force us not to tiptoe around China?

On that note, what do you think about Trump's policy against Huawei when he was president? I'm inclined to think it's a good thing despite it not being something Obama (or Clinton or Biden/Harris) would do

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

I didn’t think any of those companies did any manufacturing.

They don't. Well, TI does but not anywhere near the the node size of the three you mentioned: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/technology_node

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

By that definition Intel isn't manufacturing either, its foxcon that manufacturers for them.