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>a company like Intel can't be spun up/replaced on anything less than even more subsidies and probably 10 years of nondelivery/noncompetitiveness. As a taxpaye
by Dalewyn 2y ago
>a company like Intel can't be spun up/replaced on anything less than even more subsidies and probably 10 years of nondelivery/noncompetitiveness.
As a taxpayer I sincerely couldn't care less, I'm fucking tired of seeing my tax dollars wasted on bailouts and subsidies for nothing. If we absolutely must use tax dollars on Intel at this point, I have a hardline requirement: Nationalize them. I want fucking tangible assets, things of fucking value for my tax dollars spent. I want them to become Public Property if they want to spend Public Money. I want them answering to the accountability of the Constitution and the electorate for wanting my tax dollars so desperately.
>This is a top-line chip fabricator,
No, they are not. If they were, none of us would be having this conversation.
>National security concerns underline Intels importance.
No, it is not. Not when we (Intel) are already defeated and the battle decided. Not when allies (South Korea, Israel, Germany/EU, et al.) have actual top-line silicon production. Also see next.
>Identify the process nodes desperately needed for economic protection ... We need state of the art,
No, we do not. Most of the country, let alone the world, still runs on 50+ year old silicon technology. Not even the military uses "state of the art" silicon, they're almost always at least 10 to 20 years back from the bleeding edge if not more.
As for the silicon we all actually need and use? We can produce plenty of them. See: Texas Instruments (includes former National Semiconductor), Analog Devices, Onsemi (includes former Fairchild Semiconductor), and more.
No, we do not need Intel for national security, nor even economic prosperity for that matter. The American semiconductor industry is much more massive than Nvidia, AMD, and Intel.
>I cannot believe Intel has failed at integrated graphics for so long.
Intel's iGPUs have been and are the best iGPUs on the market. They almost always work everywhere everytime for all practical purposes. It's their discrete GPUs which have been and always were disappointing, I'm not holding my breath that Battlemage can defy history.