Would have required a coalition of winners to committ to multi year contracts for production to warrant the process and capacity investments
The “winners” president isn’t going to suggest that deal now via coalition of customers to pay the PE financiers
Nvidia
Apple
Google
Azure
Meta
Tesla
Broadcom
Qualcomm
That was a deal the board needed to make happen in Q1 25…. I don’t think LBT could do it now…the customers don’t think they need intel to that existential extent.
@am as long as the oligarchs win, that's what matters. They can leverage chaos all day long.
The functionality the Government needs could be maintain by a very small subset of sites. They would need to keep a fab and a packaging site. The rest of Intel can just fade away.
Yep. any company, anyone or anything can and will be crushed by government If it is a situation where politicians will gain votes. Remember that the next time you think your vote counts.
Wouldn’t expect a bail out but some contracts or “deals” would be a good start. DoD seems to want to give away F-35s like they’re candy these days. Not really being in FPGAs anymore doesn’t help. Also Nvidia seems to have their own back door entrance to the WH for who knows what. More engagement needs to happen in this area and those talks can help formulate product focus as well if they want to continue gov business. They have to get out there, this administration is not going to go to them and this tariff they originally were saying back in April would be a done deal by June because they were going to expedite the investigation now seems to be murky so whatever. Regardless, it’s not up to USG to “save” and even if they did the terms would more than likely would be unfavorable (govt stake in company).
Won't somebody think of the stockholders?
Bankruptcy.
Yes. Business rewards WINNERS!
Governments around the world (also known as the taxpayer, ME!) have given Intel billions upon billions already. You guys have some neck.
They will make Intel merge with Government Motors
I know this is a long shot, but have we tried making better products?
Even today, Intel employees are still looking for some divine intervention. How about realistic business plan and good old engineering excellence?
Intel is no more. Slim down fab will be sold to
Private equity for pennies on the dollar and Bain and McKinsey will make 100x their investment. Product fabless design team sold to Qualcomm, Broadcom or even PE.
Why should the government care with this perfect solution.
the us debt is at 38 trillion
how much more would you like to borrow to keep failures going