Intel might be too big to fail — Washington policymakers are already discussing potential solutions if the chipmaker cannot recover
Intel might be too big to fail — Washington policymakers are already discussing potential solutions if the chipmaker cannot recover
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If Intel can't pay their own bills from Intel's money, they can be sold to a private company, file for chapter 11, or go out of business.
And let all those backdoors just walk away?
I assume that you're at least halfway joking about backdoors in Intel.
Intel silicon has historically had a lot of "bugs"...
Every and any hardware manufacturer can or has.
What he means is the feature of having a lightweight OS with no documentation running under the OS you as a customer is running.
That's not going to go away by switching to AMD or some ARM implementation, they all have their own equivalent. Maybe if you're running some fully libre open-source RISC-V chip, but those are currently nowhere near capable of competing on the big stage for anything other than embedded/hobbyist stuff.
as much as I think Intel is dumb, it's definitely not in the consumers best interest for Intel to go out of business or absorbed into another company
Why is it in anyone's best interest to keep it as a monopoly if it can't pay its bills? Its products are going to stagnate either way, injecting money is useless.
I will take Intel being sold or going under over cronyism and corporate welfare.