Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia

Re:Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker... by consumer451 on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @03:31AM (#45577202)

We do not appear to be very smart as a country.

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Re:Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker... by immibis on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @03:56AM (#45577336)

It's not a country - it's a collection of individual billionaires. Each billionaire involved in these kinds of deals gets richer, and has no reason to care about anyone else.

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Re:Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker... by consumer451 on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @04:03AM (#45577386)

Yes, but we’ve apparently chosen to run our country in such a way.

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Re:Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker... by RobotToaster on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @07:51AM (#45578907)

"we" never got any say in the matter.

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Re:Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker... by immibis on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @02:22PM (#45583132)

By not doing anything to stop it, we agreed to it. No options to stop it were presented, but we weren't limited to the presented options.

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