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Re:Germany paying $5.5B for Intel fab by outside1234 on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @10:43AM (#31655083)
Intel is far from a monopoly in the foundry business and is frankly, the only realistic option outside of TSMC to make this happen.

And the US does the same thing in terms of tax breaks for German automotive companies building manufacturing plants.

Which again, makes sense, because you want to make sure you have manufacturing across continents in case Russia invades Germany and blows up all of the auto plants (for example).

Re:Germany paying $5.5B for Intel fab by alaricus on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @10:49AM (#31655187)
Russia is not going to invade Germany. Stop spreading nonsense.
Re:Germany paying $5.5B for Intel fab by adventured on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @01:02PM (#31657222)
You probably shouldn't be downvoted for that. Russia of the present, and for at least the next few decades, is entirely incapable of getting anywhere near staging an invasion of Germany. Russia and it's hyper incompetent military can't even make it a quarter of the way through Ukraine.

The best Russia could do is bomb Germany from a distance, which could pose a small threat to valuable infrastructure like fabs.

Re:Germany paying $5.5B for Intel fab by trasz on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @01:41PM (#31657727)
Unless they manage to do that zerg rush trick again.
Re:Germany paying $5.5B for Intel fab by happyopossum on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @12:59PM (#31657174)
Frankly, with NATO around they don’t Have to invade Germany to get Germany involved in a war - if they invade any NATO member, Germany will get involved, which means Germany is a target for retributive strikes.
Re:Germany paying $5.5B for Intel fab by outside1234 on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @01:54PM (#31657895)
You are very confident of that. I wouldn't be so confident of that.