I mean Intel has value, but I think the largest part of the value would be the technical knowledge, experience of making and designing chips, and the foundary i

I mean Intel has value, but I think the largest part of the value would be the technical knowledge, experience of making and designing chips, and the foundary is a large asset. I am unsure if Intel makes non consumer chips for the CNC, robotics field, or military but those are all potential customers for a Intel fab especially if its a USA based fab. Side question about modern hardware architecture, why is pcie all handles by the CPU. The CPU determines how many lanes you have available be it on Intel or amd. The GPU was created to accelerate graphics and the specific architecture benefits, just as NPU or DPU can help offload work from a system onto a acceleror architecture that can handle specific tasks way better than a CPU could. Why isn't pcie interconnect handles by a separate chip with way more lanes but instead forced to be handles on the CPU die and as such is size constrained and has to share layout space with cores and other accelerators?