LOTS of companies are either suing or thinking of suing GF for failure to uphold technology development/adoption agreements. IBM is one of those. This Intel s

LOTS of companies are either suing or thinking of suing GF for failure to uphold technology development/adoption agreements. IBM is one of those. This Intel situation is certainly part of "keeping it in the USA" though it would have been far easier and cheaper to prevent outsourcing back in the mid-1990s when Silicon Valley's silicon ebbed out of the country. It was a night-and-day change and lots of knowledgeable people were scattered to the wind back then. Now much of that knowledge is having to be reinvented and rediscovered from scratch (because it was tacit knowledge that never could be recorded into books or other writing). This probably is the best way for Intel to become a foundry. They tried 10 years ago and the entire process was 100% Epic Fail. Not surprising given the pain seen when AMD split off its fabs to form GF, when it abandoned being an IDM vertical fab. When you are an IDM, many process-design interfaces break or have to be formalized in ways that were never imagined or learned by the organization. That's how Intel failed its foundry attempt before so simply avoid Intel culture by buying an already working culture makes a lot of sense.