> Intel customers, such as Apple Inc, Microsoft Corp and Amazon.com Inc, are developing their own in-house silicon solutions and sending those designs to be manufactured in East Asia, Loeb wrote.

This is the key point right here, and one our Government should be worried about. It's a national security issue if we aren't able to make our own chips.

It's a tough choice, because in the name of free trade you want to allow companies to build wherever makes the most sense cost-wise, but in the name of national security, you want to retain that critical skill here.

It's a tough balancing act.