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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] -4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I love that paranoia and xenophobia. As if a corrupt domestic company is somehow magically better than a corrupt international company.

It's been quite obvious over the past few years that yes there's potentially some risk of foreign countries trying to install spy code, but actually that doesn't seem to happen very often, and what's much more damaging to our society are large corporations that use their power to screw over the general public, and most of these large corporations are domestic.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It’s not xenophobia, it’s a matter of national security for every single western nation. Without Intel, x86 processor manufacturing would be limited to TSMC in Taiwan, and would only serve to further incentivise Chinese aggression over the island.

So yes, paranoia - but sometimes that can be a good thing.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

And there's also resilience against natural disasters. Having processor manufacturing limited to one place is just a bad idea.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I mean, what did you think when you learned that the US was worried about something as basic as surgical/n95 masks during the pandemic because we simply didn't produce any domestically?

Seems absolutely silly not to think your country should have some say in how computer processors are developed. I highly recommend the book Chip War to anyone interested in learning more.

That all said, my understanding is all chip design is dependent on design software entirely owned by US companies - so there's that at least.