Re:Intel outsources Core i3 to TSMC's 5nm process
by Symmetry on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @06:04PM
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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.
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.