The U.S. government has been holding discussions on taking an equity stake in the chip maker Intel, Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
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The U.S. government has been holding discussions on taking an equity stake in the chip maker Intel, Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
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Um what? Rental profits?
As far as its importance, Im a silicon design engineer. I care a lot about that. There are US fabs that aren’t too far behind for now, and TSMC is building its next fab in Arizona, notTaiwan.
Like I said this is all about investors. Don’t be fooled.
Economic “Rents”. Surplus income earned by a resource owner.
In Intel’s case, they thought they could avoid investing in new major capital projects and just milk the existing IP/facilities to draw out the return on the original investment.
I guess we’ll see what comes of that. But I’m not sure sending Intel into receivership is going to improve the American tech sector landscape