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Re:Intel outsources Core i3 to TSMC's 5nm process by setpatchaddress on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @03:48PM (#25851785)
Available evidence suggests otherwise.

Tesla and SpaceX probably wouldn't exist if not for government bootstrapping. https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-musk-subsidies-201...

Further back, modern computing / internetworking wouldn't exist without military and DARPA cash from the government. Read any book on the history of these.

Re:Intel outsources Core i3 to TSMC's 5nm process by Symmetry on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @06:04PM (#25853110)
There's a difference between the government paying for or subsidizing a needed service and the government bailing out a specific company after that company has failed to compete in the market. Successful industrial policy, like the sort South Korea practiced, requires backing the winners not rescuing the losers.