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Re:Intel ousts its chief engineer, shakes up technical group... by vkou on Monday July 27, 2020 @09:10PM (#23971248)
> I hope Intel keeps its US-based fabs and continues to upgrade them. It would be a mistake to cede this capacity to outsourcing like so much of our other manufacturing capacity.

Intel is a publicly traded internationally-owned corporation, with no obligations to the long-term welfare of the United States.

If you'd like a chip manufacturer to make decisions based on what is good for the US, I would recommend bribing it, nationalizing it, or starting a government-backed competitor.

Any of those would be more effective at accomplishing this than hope and prayers. The free market itself is not necessarilly going to deliver the results you wish for, just because you wish for them.

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Re:Intel ousts its chief engineer, shakes up technical group... by chottocharaii on Monday July 27, 2020 @10:07PM (#23971618)
Gee save us the free market lecture friend. What he said doesn’t exclude any of the options you’ve brought up.

Also I note you’ve raised carrot strategies when stick strategies exist also.

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Re:Intel ousts its chief engineer, shakes up technical group... by stass on Monday July 27, 2020 @10:16PM (#23971667)
You are correct about having no obligations, but as a company that is based in US and employs a large US-based workforce it benefits a lot from US itself being successful.
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Re:Intel ousts its chief engineer, shakes up technical group... by shi314 on Monday July 27, 2020 @11:17PM (#23971945)
In Today's World, Countries should be grateful to a company when they employ people. There is no lack of highly skilled workforce in entire world. US with it's abysmal education system should be grateful to intel that it attracts semi conductor industry talents from all over the world which maintains US's hegemony in the world. If intel doesn't employ them, they would start companies like TSMC in their countries, hell if US didn't discriminate against Asians in 1980s maybe TSMC wouldn't even exist in the first place. Benefits that US provides to companies is way less than benefits companies provide to US.
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