Because at some point, you need domestically-owned manufacturing as a matter of national security.
Exactly, the US already have a functional domestic semiconductor production, covering pretty much everything you'd need. It's much cheaper to protect and maintain that, compared to trying to revive or create a production line, like the EU is.
I don't buy it, it's not like the military needs the latest bleeding edge semiconductors out there.
If they do, they shouldn't rely on publicly traded companies and put them on support line on taxpayer's money.
Re:Intel might be too big to fail
by insane_dreamer on Sunday November 03, 2024 @10:08AM
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because you wind up with your military and government being heavily dependent on a foreign power who may be hostile towards you
I mean really IDC. The only justification I have is I also don't want oppressive foreign authoritarian governments (Russia, China) to become even more powerful and oppressive. Slowly doing the tide of tech into them seems to help. In Russia we've seen how this has played out prematurely at a great cost of human life.
I really don't like those protectionist arguments they do nothing good for any of the parties involved, merely raise the prices to consumers and deprive them of choices.