Trump tweet:
It is my Great Honor to report that the United States of America now fully owns and controls 10% of INTEL, a Great American Company that has an even more incredible future. I negotiated this Deal with Lip-Bu Tan, the Highly Respected Chief Executive Officer of the Company. The United States paid nothing for these Shares, and the Shares are now valued at approximately $11 Billion Dollars. This is a great Deal for America and, also, a great Deal for INTEL. Building leading edge Semiconductors and Chips, which is what INTEL does, is fundamental to the future of our Nation. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Are you happy now, communists? We’re nationalizing companies.
They don’t call it the The Immortal Science for nothin’
So how did they get all that stock for free?
When Biden was president the Democrats passed the Chips Act, which has grants for chipmakers to build in the US. When Trump took power he basically stopped issuing these grants to companies that were set to get them.
My understanding is that basically Intel will give 10% of itself if Trump stops blocking the grants it was already set to get. I guess Intel’s thinking is that if they make the US a part owner, then Trump won’t obstruct the company so much.
This might sound like good news (kind of) in that the government is getting equity in return for the money, but I doubt Trump will enforce the original requirements and purpose of the grants, so Intel probably won’t end up finishing many of the factories it was supposed to build. It also sets a precedent that you can’t rely on goverment grants to do things as future parties may change the terms of the deal retroactively, even after you already started.
I don’t understand why they would want to build in the US? There’s plenty of places with cheaper labour.
In case of war the country needs national supply of chips to put in rockets, planes, everything really.
If you make everything in Taiwan and that’s the place that’s getting blockaded by enemy Navy…
Is there some massive geopolitical issue hovering like a guillotine over Taiwan? ;)
The stake will be paid for through $5.7 billion in grants previously awarded to Intel under the 2022 U.S. CHIPS and Science Act, plus $3.2 billion awarded to the company as part of a program called Secure Enclave. It’s a formerly classified initiative that Congress appropriated funds for in 2024 after lobbying by Intel, Politico reported in 2024.
Including $2.2 billion in CHIPs grants Intel has received so far, the total investment is $11.1 billion, or 9.9%. Intel is valued at about $108 billion on the stock market.
Oh got it. It’s Trump attempting to take credit for Biden’s good legislation.
Now that checks out. Thanks!
Why does he always close with “Thank you for your attention to this matter”? Does he think he’s got his big boy pants on or something?
I wish he would say, “And God have mercy on our souls.”
If you had been sued as often as this guy, you’d probably be muttering random legalese in your sleep and unconsciously letting it leech into your vocab, too
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Probably heard it once and thought it was cool or saw a couple of memes with it and now it’s his brain worm.
Wonder what they’re gonna use that power for, especially considering their efforts to censor history and go after people they don’t like.
i just got an amd card in response :)
Oh i’ve been buying AMD for a while because Intel has been rudderless for ages
i recently got an nvidia but then i switched to linux after and nvidia is so terrible on linux so this was a good push to get a new one. :)
CPU vs GPU, not really the same thing lol
so, AMD for me from now on then.
Yes, but also because they’re just better chips and you probably should have only been getting them to begin with. Way more power efficient, smaller process, less heat, easier to upgrade, better multi core performance, lower price; you just get a better CPU.
Note that better multicore perf is not true through the entire stack, because Intel chips have p core making them have better multicore perf in a lot of price-competitive offerings.
But the current platform is quite dead, you won’t get upgrades for it
P cores give them better single core performance. But in parallel computing AMD has the advantage and has defended it for a long time now.
Years of failed management rewarded with government bailout.
I missed something, what did Intel get in return for 10% of their company?
The assurance that no matter how much they mess up, they will have government backing.
Your tax money
Fucking hilarious that this is party that starts seizing the means of production.
It was never, ever even once about states rights. It was never about fighting communism. It’s all racism, always has been.
They are open enough about thinking some kind of late USSR, fixed against its deadlocks and broken feedback, would be the best system for them. I mean, having a one party system is very attractive, LOL.
And yeah, that crowd is about seizing whatever they want to build their idea of a better nation, with re-industrializing and so on. There are pits on the road, though.
And, honestly, never in history were many US politicians willing for the USSR to die as it did. They would, of course, ridicule the broken system and ideology, but the whole idea seemed more understandable than most European nations. And flattering.
It was never, ever even once about states rights. It was never about fighting communism. It’s all racism, always has been.
It’s honestly funny, so - in Eastern Europe, when comparing ourselves to the USA, it’s very easy to get sympathetic to these points. Also to color blindness and being against affirmative action, and such.
Because information travels non-linearly. From here many people really think that the racism problem is solved in the US, and it’s just lazy Blacks not willing to work honestly, and that last point is racist, but if you say that American racists still think it’s wrong for a white person to marry a black person, those same people won’t believe you, it’s not part of their own kind of racism, or that American racists actually exist in huge enough numbers, they think it’s like calling others fascists here, something devalued by common usage. They’d be livid.
So - what I’m thinking is that USSR’s dead hand was, in fact, not its nuclear shield, but its ideology and state architecture, and some people want to break their own bad, but functional system in favor of their imaginary picture of USSR. Which is just as detached from reality. USSR’s checks and balances had a downside of stalling development and conserving the balance of power, nothing big got actually done. It would seem that they might actually come to the same result with far less blood, jump to 1960s USSR without a passing through 1920s-1950s, but wasting a few decades on that with a pretty clear end result would seem a bad idea.
That’s about political systems, arguing against my imagination on what they think. With re-industrialization I agree completely. In general, oursourcing labor is directly opposed to labor rights, and labor rights are what guarantees political rights.
Us Treasury is providing capital… Hardly seizing anything.
Maybe if intel was ran into the ground by idiots. They wouldn’t need to be bailed out by feds.
They were already providing capital without the seizure. So yeah, this is seizing.
Intel was free to refuse the money
Somehow this is okay but bailing out GM was a problem.
He just nationalized Intel. That’s what conservatives are afraid of far left governments doing.
10% is not “nationalized”. It’s “19.99% nationalized”. Need to have a majority stake (like 50.01%) to call it “nationalized”.
Or maybe I’m wrong.
10% is a controlling share. The government (Trump) owns enough to make major decisions about how the company is run.
By your maths it’s 10/50.01=19.99% nationalised, actually. :P
Yes, I’ve already fixed myself, it was sad
Further, he killed all trust in Intel. Now, no one will believe that there are no government back doors into everything they make.
There’s literally Intel Management Engine or how is it called.
And they are literally an American corporation that has always benefited from American governments pressuring competitors from other countries, and that was important for MIC since 70s.
So that kind of trust was a clear no since long before I was born.
For real, this just further cemented me not wanting to buy any new Intel devices.
So true, I’ve officially bought my last Intel product, though I didn’t know it at the time… A shame cause I was interested in their GPUs at maybe some point in the future. From now on it’s either ARM or AMD. Can’t support a company (partially) controlled by a fascism regime.
Intel is a us corporate they do as the US spooks tell them to do.
That’s national security laws.
Intel never deserved trust. They rigged the game by cheating on benchmark tests and deserve the karma they are currently enjoying.
I guess the average consumer would not be very aware of Intel being so shitty, but now everyone has a reason to be wary of them.
Their biggest problem is that people don’t want to buy their stuff because it’s bad, they can worry about their backdoory image later
Honestly this. Their cpus melting down over the past couple years and their refusal to even acknowledge it hurt their image more than any potential backdoor could.
“Nationalized” with a heavy dose of quote marks. The government now owns about 10% of Intel in non-voting shares. It’s basically meaningless.
Yup. They also rewrote national broadband funding criteria so starlink would win most of the state contracts for funding. If the states are stupid enough to take it, the Elon Musk will own their citizens internet. Colorado just announced Starlink won half of all the contracts and Amazon the other half(I didn’t even know Amazon provided Internet holy terrifying):
You may experience difficulty connecting to some web domains and your homepage has been preselected for you. Your monthly history will be reviewed and unpatriotic web usage will result in detainment or deportation.
Congratulations on your Freedom!
B-b-but Starlink doesn’t build infrastructure for normal broadband, does it? So they basically got a load of free money for doing nothing on a state level, just their satellites flying someplace above? I mean, there are Starlink ground stations, so there is infrastructure, just how many people would use it instead of a normal service. You know, GPON to the door, no antenna suffering in bad weather, no exorbitant prices.
Those worthless cunt traitors never acted in good faith. FFS, they willingly elected a child rapist.
I mean, no. Owning a 10% stake is not nationalisation.
Yes. It is.
Excalty like China.
China’s internal market is far more cutthroat and “capitalist” than that of the USA. And less regulated. And less monopolized, except for a few services which, ahem, are mandated (WeeChat, yes).
That was their “unique path”, to move all hierarchical stuff into political entities. It look interesting on a large scale, from more “peasant-oriented” communism, kinda changing the initial Marxist picture of worker-capital relations, to this.
NB: WeeChat and WeChat are different things
Is giving Intel freekmey better?
Lol at all the conservatives screeching about “socialism” and “communism” and how they will be the downfall of our country, then slurping up Trump nationalizing part of Intel 🤣
They don’t believe in anything, just brain dead simpleton cultists who would happily stick their tongue into a rat trap if Trump told them to do it.
Could you imagine how many times the word “socialism” would be blasted on Fox News if Biden did this?
It wouldn’t, they are one big criminal family after all.
You’re as bad as centrists/swing voters
I’m worse, I’m not ever voting at all in US elections. Being a Russian citizen and never having set foot in the US.
But they are one big criminal family. I mean, yes, in the 90s Clinton and the democratic party really had sort of a plan of battle, but they dropped the ball completely. It’s unfortunate, because had they not, maybe our world would really be similar to more utopian lines from sci-fi.
I negotiated this Deal with Lip-Bu Tan, the Highly Respected Chief Executive Officer of the Company.
That i tried to get fired less than two weeks ago.
A ten percent stake in the company and suddenly those concerning Chinese ties Trump mentioned aren’t a thing.
That part of his behavior his fans, I think, approve of.
Literallt extortion.
The way This Guy capitalizes Random Words drives me INSANE.
If you wanna be president of the United States, you should at least learn the language.
Isn’t he mimicking the typography of oldish “wild west style” newspapers and other print? Both with different fonts, and varying capitalization, and sizes. Yelling at you from monochrome photos.
(Never been in the USA.)
Also “Thank you for your attention to this matter.” has such “Facebook local area group” energy, like a Boomer shouting into the void about teenagers always loitering at the bus stop.
The United States will not seek direct representation on Intel’s board
If they want change, they don’t to vote on the board. They can just pass laws in Intel’s favour.
Taxpayers are now all Intel shareholders. I can’t understand what benefit this provides them.
Better than giving away billions of dollars no string attached
