Intel exits memory business, sale to Hynix for $9B

Re:Intel exits memory business, sale to Hynix for $9B by georgeecollins on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @04:48PM (#24842226)

The US actually depends on trade much less than most nations. Any economic embargo would be bad, but in general much worse for almost any other nation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_trade-to-...

Also, surprisingly, more people in the US work in manufacturing today than in 1939. And obviously the $ value of that manufacturing is much higher due to increased productivity.

https://thelevelfield.com/dashboard/us-manufacturing-employm...

Any conflict would be terrible and should be avoided, but its not like the US became very vulnerable recently.

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Re:Intel exits memory business, sale to Hynix for $9B by baybal2 on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @02:48AM (#24845346)

USA's manufacturing statistics is weird. There are a lot of "manufacturing" companies with billions in revenue without a single factory in USA.

First, it is funny accounting, second, it is LOWER productivity of most companies, not higher, which is counter-weighted in statistics by few supergiant companies like Boeing, third, it is slow shift to lower value goods, and processes in smaller companies, and sky higher ones in big ones.

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Re:Intel exits memory business, sale to Hynix for $9B by javajosh on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @07:49PM (#24843493)

It seems like our inability to get basic civilian infrastructure work done in a reasonable time-frame and cost bodes ill for any wartime effort.

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