Re:Intel Failed Science
by TheBigSalad on Thursday September 29, 2022 @11:39AM
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Lobbying is just businesses asking congress people for things. You can't offer them anything of value in return, then it becomes bribery which is highly illegal. Not saying it doesn't happen, but don't equate lobbying with bribery.
>Lobbying is just businesses asking congress people for things. You can't offer them anything of value in return, then it becomes bribery which is highly illegal.
Some of those "congress people" (or their family members) were employed earlier in the firms they pass legislation for, and some are employed later. Still corruption in a different way.
As others pointed out, the real controversy should be ... did Intel just take the government money and run? Even worse, did they sit on these funds while AMD was perfectly capable of delivering exascale and prevent AMD from providing a second computer? In terms of government boondoggles it probably is peanuts though.
The most shocking part of your post is that AMD got funding to deliver a computer somewhere else. I would have thought Intel could have blocked that with lobbying.