Intel Solidifies $3.5B Deal to Make Chips for Military

Re:Intel Solidifies $3.5B Deal to Make Chips for Military by jason-phillips on Friday September 13, 2024 @08:44PM (#41536592)

This is nothing more than Intel joining the ranks of the other tbtf government contractors. That's how they plan to survive.

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Re:Intel Solidifies $3.5B Deal to Make Chips for Military by georgeburdell on Friday September 13, 2024 @10:49PM (#41537116)

Intel has had the government as a customer for a long time. They even have a division for it (Intel Federal)

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Re:Intel Solidifies $3.5B Deal to Make Chips for Military by aurareturn on Friday September 13, 2024 @11:29PM (#41537267)

Did they manufacture military designs though? Or just sell Intel designs (with some modifications) to military?

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Re:Intel Solidifies $3.5B Deal to Make Chips for Military by Rinzler89 on Saturday September 14, 2024 @08:21AM (#41539348)

Intel was making 386 chips for the F-22 for a looking time after they became obsolete.

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Re:Intel Solidifies $3.5B Deal to Make Chips for Military by Melatonic on Saturday September 14, 2024 @09:31AM (#41539690)

386 in the F22?! Why ? Such an old chip even considering the plane was in design for years no ?

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Re:Intel Solidifies $3.5B Deal to Make Chips for Military by sillywalk on Sunday September 15, 2024 @09:05PM (#41551813)

I thought the F-22 initially used the i960, not the 386, but then switched to PowerPC.

[0] http://www.righto.com/2023/07/the-complex-history-of-intel-i...

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Re:Intel Solidifies $3.5B Deal to Make Chips for Military by horacemorace on Friday September 13, 2024 @09:06PM (#41536692)

It also increases the likelihood of a secure supply chain for mil components. Seems like a win-win.

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Re:Intel Solidifies $3.5B Deal to Make Chips for Military by roenxi on Friday September 13, 2024 @09:18PM (#41536736)

In the sense that any voluntary trade is a win-win for both parties, yes. But it is inglorious compared to where Intel was in, say, the early 2000s. It is a big change to look at market cap and see traders treating AMD as a big player, then Intel somewhere off in the also-ran territory.

So much for their monopoly.

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