A deal would be another turn by the Trump administration away from laissez-faire policies and toward state capitalism.

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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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    14 days ago

    Um what? Rental profits?

    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.

    There are US fabs that aren’t too far behind for now, and TSMC is building its next fab in Arizona, notTaiwan.

    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