Trump tweet:
It is my Great Honor to report that the United States of America now fully owns and controls 10% of INTEL, a Great American Company that has an even more incredible future. I negotiated this Deal with Lip-Bu Tan, the Highly Respected Chief Executive Officer of the Company. The United States paid nothing for these Shares, and the Shares are now valued at approximately $11 Billion Dollars. This is a great Deal for America and, also, a great Deal for INTEL. Building leading edge Semiconductors and Chips, which is what INTEL does, is fundamental to the future of our Nation. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! Thank you for your attention to this matter.
He just nationalized Intel. That’s what conservatives are afraid of far left governments doing.
Further, he killed all trust in Intel. Now, no one will believe that there are no government back doors into everything they make.
For real, this just further cemented me not wanting to buy any new Intel devices.
So true, I’ve officially bought my last Intel product, though I didn’t know it at the time… A shame cause I was interested in their GPUs at maybe some point in the future. From now on it’s either ARM or AMD. Can’t support a company (partially) controlled by a fascism regime.
Their biggest problem is that people don’t want to buy their stuff because it’s bad, they can worry about their backdoory image later
Honestly this. Their cpus melting down over the past couple years and their refusal to even acknowledge it hurt their image more than any potential backdoor could.
Intel never deserved trust. They rigged the game by cheating on benchmark tests and deserve the karma they are currently enjoying.
I guess the average consumer would not be very aware of Intel being so shitty, but now everyone has a reason to be wary of them.
There’s literally Intel Management Engine or how is it called.
And they are literally an American corporation that has always benefited from American governments pressuring competitors from other countries, and that was important for MIC since 70s.
So that kind of trust was a clear no since long before I was born.
Intel is a us corporate they do as the US spooks tell them to do.
That’s national security laws.
Yeah… no one who this matters to thought that anyway. Either you get Chinese or US backdoors in your hardware. This has always been true. Theoretically Intel could make some backdoorless chips for government use though, but we won’t have access to that.
Yup. They also rewrote national broadband funding criteria so starlink would win most of the state contracts for funding. If the states are stupid enough to take it, the Elon Musk will own their citizens internet. Colorado just announced Starlink won half of all the contracts and Amazon the other half(I didn’t even know Amazon provided Internet holy terrifying):
You may experience difficulty connecting to some web domains and your homepage has been preselected for you. Your monthly history will be reviewed and unpatriotic web usage will result in detainment or deportation.
Congratulations on your Freedom!
B-b-but Starlink doesn’t build infrastructure for normal broadband, does it? So they basically got a load of free money for doing nothing on a state level, just their satellites flying someplace above? I mean, there are Starlink ground stations, so there is infrastructure, just how many people would use it instead of a normal service. You know, GPON to the door, no antenna suffering in bad weather, no exorbitant prices.
Those worthless cunt traitors never acted in good faith. FFS, they willingly elected a child rapist.
“Nationalized” with a heavy dose of quote marks. The government now owns about 10% of Intel in non-voting shares. It’s basically meaningless.
10% is not “nationalized”. It’s “19.99% nationalized”. Need to have a majority stake (like 50.01%) to call it “nationalized”.
Or maybe I’m wrong.
10% is a controlling share. The government (Trump) owns enough to make major decisions about how the company is run.
I mean, no. Owning a 10% stake is not nationalisation.
Yes. It is.
Excalty like China.
China’s internal market is far more cutthroat and “capitalist” than that of the USA. And less regulated. And less monopolized, except for a few services which, ahem, are mandated (WeeChat, yes).
That was their “unique path”, to move all hierarchical stuff into political entities. It look interesting on a large scale, from more “peasant-oriented” communism, kinda changing the initial Marxist picture of worker-capital relations, to this.
NB: WeeChat and WeChat are different things
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Is giving Intel freekmey better?
I negotiated this Deal with Lip-Bu Tan, the Highly Respected Chief Executive Officer of the Company.
That i tried to get fired less than two weeks ago.
Literallt extortion.
Could you imagine how many times the word “socialism” would be blasted on Fox News if Biden did this?
It wouldn’t, they are one big criminal family after all.
You’re as bad as centrists/swing voters
I’m worse, I’m not ever voting at all in US elections. Being a Russian citizen and never having set foot in the US.
But they are one big criminal family. I mean, yes, in the 90s Clinton and the democratic party really had sort of a plan of battle, but they dropped the ball completely. It’s unfortunate, because had they not, maybe our world would really be similar to more utopian lines from sci-fi.
“Free” market.
Since Wall Street, never really was.
You’re more right than you may know.
An actual city wall existed on the street from 1653 to 1699. During the 18th century, the location served as a slave market and securities trading site, and from 1703 onward
No cliffhanger please.
Functionally, there’s no such thing. In a system that gives the most power to the company that makes the most money, that company will seek to maximize its profits. Part of maximizing profits is eliminating competition. So in a “free” market, the most successful will subvert the freedom of their competition thus eliminating the freedom in the market.
Self-correction in a market is an illusion crafted people either desperate to salvage a broken system, or those who seek to exploit them.
That’s why free market is how we call a market where anti-monopoly laws exist, work and are enforced in full.
While what you are talking about isn’t called market, it’s called jungle.
Self-correction in a market is an illusion crafted people either desperate to salvage a broken system, or those who seek to exploit them.
Self-correction exists when anti-monopoly laws exist, work and are enforced in full. It doesn’t exist when they don’t, because self-correction relies upon competition providing a choice and the consumer using it.
Also trade unions and customer associations are part of what we call free market. Both are voluntary, in public interest, and work when they exist. No coercion involved, thus no violation of market laws.
Also on large enough scale of the market and small enough scale of all businesses it may sometimes seem, that anti-monopoly laws are not needed. Especially since when anti-monopoly laws work, the market appears such.
Lol at all the conservatives screeching about “socialism” and “communism” and how they will be the downfall of our country, then slurping up Trump nationalizing part of Intel 🤣
They don’t believe in anything, just brain dead simpleton cultists who would happily stick their tongue into a rat trap if Trump told them to do it.
Are you happy now, communists? We’re nationalizing companies.
yeah I have no idea what the fuck is happening anymore. the GOP is full pedo-junta on business…
So, I haven’t checked project 2025, but there is a Christian nationalist plan that wants to take over everything called Seven Mountains Mandate. You can just read the link, but the idea is to take over what they consider all major parts of society, including business and have a Christian Dominion.
yeah they’re fuckin nutso too. fml
They don’t call it the The Immortal Science for nothin’
Release the Trump/Epstein files
Somehow this is okay but bailing out GM was a problem.
so, AMD for me from now on then.
Yes, but also because they’re just better chips and you probably should have only been getting them to begin with. Way more power efficient, smaller process, less heat, easier to upgrade, better multi core performance, lower price; you just get a better CPU.
Note that better multicore perf is not true through the entire stack, because Intel chips have p core making them have better multicore perf in a lot of price-competitive offerings.
But the current platform is quite dead, you won’t get upgrades for it
P cores give them better single core performance. But in parallel computing AMD has the advantage and has defended it for a long time now.
I meant e-cores
Right when I was thinking of buying an intel cpu and gpu to support the company and do my little part in helping increase competition in the cpu and gpu sector. Guess I will stick with amd this time around.
This is Small Government!
… Dick …
Years of failed management rewarded with government bailout.
I missed something, what did Intel get in return for 10% of their company?
Your tax money
The assurance that no matter how much they mess up, they will have government backing.
So how did they get all that stock for free?
When Biden was president the Democrats passed the Chips Act, which has grants for chipmakers to build in the US. When Trump took power he basically stopped issuing these grants to companies that were set to get them.
My understanding is that basically Intel will give 10% of itself if Trump stops blocking the grants it was already set to get. I guess Intel’s thinking is that if they make the US a part owner, then Trump won’t obstruct the company so much.
This might sound like good news (kind of) in that the government is getting equity in return for the money, but I doubt Trump will enforce the original requirements and purpose of the grants, so Intel probably won’t end up finishing many of the factories it was supposed to build. It also sets a precedent that you can’t rely on goverment grants to do things as future parties may change the terms of the deal retroactively, even after you already started.
I don’t understand why they would want to build in the US? There’s plenty of places with cheaper labour.
In case of war the country needs national supply of chips to put in rockets, planes, everything really.
If you make everything in Taiwan and that’s the place that’s getting blockaded by enemy Navy…
Is there some massive geopolitical issue hovering like a guillotine over Taiwan? ;)
For that matter, it was the same problem the US then faced back when it was getting much of their electronics from Japan, as the Soviet threat loomed so large.
Because Biden paid them with grants to build in the US. It’s that simple.
Beyond that there’s stability and the likelihood of not being invaded or facing natural disasters.
There’s meant to be government, legal, and financial institution stability too.
As well as intellectual property defense, trade secrets and NDAs.
Material supplies are meant to be stable too.
When you’re investing in something as specialised as chip manufacturing, labour is a fraction of your concern. Both short and long term.
The stake will be paid for through $5.7 billion in grants previously awarded to Intel under the 2022 U.S. CHIPS and Science Act, plus $3.2 billion awarded to the company as part of a program called Secure Enclave. It’s a formerly classified initiative that Congress appropriated funds for in 2024 after lobbying by Intel, Politico reported in 2024.
Including $2.2 billion in CHIPs grants Intel has received so far, the total investment is $11.1 billion, or 9.9%. Intel is valued at about $108 billion on the stock market.
Oh got it. It’s Trump attempting to take credit for Biden’s good legislation.
Now that checks out. Thanks!
Now do that with Exxon Mobil, Chevron and ConocoPhillips
