It's important that Intel continues to be successful not because I've any love for the company which I haven't but because it's essential that it does so for US

It's important that Intel continues to be successful not because I've any love for the company which I haven't but because it's essential that it does so for US manufacturing. If for nothing else Intel has to be viable for strategic reasons. I've never liked Intel since the days when it partnered with AMD to make 'complementary' chips and it broke that agreement leaving AMD to struggle for decades (it's why whenever given the opportunity I've always chosen AMD chips). Who remembers the double-page ads in Electronics and Electronics Design with Intel ads on one page and AMD on the opposite stating that their designs complemented each other? (Seems to me if that partnership had continued then US chip manufacturing may well have unassailable.) I don't like Intel nor its lousy ethics but it has to succeed as bigger issues are at stake.