I suspect that for national security reasons, the US federal government and DoD would not allow Intel to fail. Still, the military and government aren't big eno

I suspect that for national security reasons, the US federal government and DoD would not allow Intel to fail. Still, the military and government aren't big enough buyers of microprocessors to keep Intel competitive at its recent position, and I suppose that TSMC's planned fab in the US could be seen as an alternative.