Discussion Intel's past, present and future

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DrMrLordX

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Intel is trying to operate in this supposedly hands-off economy where Taiwan and TSMC are hands on. They aren't seeking market equilibrium through some mathematical model, they're seeking it by having the government support the company. And the US doesn't do that.

You may have noticed that government backing hasn't helped Samsung recently (other than to prevent them from going belly-up).
 
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fastandfurious6

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Please if he was an ultimate dictator things would lookd very different and not in a good way for the vast majority. He just happens to be term limited and doesn't give a crap about his legacy.

no, trump does massive overrreach of power, often succeeds but not always. basically if he's able to impose his will dictator-style, he will (and tries nonetheless).

literally every 'neutral' official in US public offices and policymakers etc say "the insanity is unprecedented" etc nothing like that has ever happened before, historic first


He just happens to be term limited and doesn't give a crap about his legacy.

he actually cares, he really tries to win the nobel peace prize and may even win, already brokered peace between many 50-100 years long conflicts around the world: Pakistan-India, Armenia-Azerbaijan, Thailand-Cambodia and more. Unprecedented!
 

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he actually cares, he really tries to win the nobel peace prize and may even win, already brokered peace between many 50-100 years long conflicts around the world: Pakistan-India, Armenia-Azerbaijan, Thailand-Cambodia and more. Unprecedented!

He did no such thing. Pakistan & India have had little border skirmishes every few years since they split. Trump made some pronouncements, the skirmish didn't escalate because it never does (neither wants to actually fight a war) and now he's claiming he "brokered peace". Its just laughable. I don't know what he's claimed elsewhere but it is obviously gonna be the same bs. No one is going to waltz in with the IQ of a turnip who understands nothing of the history of such conflicts and resolve it overnight. Long lasting conflicts are never actively fought the whole time, and a pause in shooting is not peace.

He's desperate to win a peace prize but the idea he thinks he would ever deserve one is laughable. He's the reason Israel attacked Iran, because Netanyahu knew he could play Trump like a fiddle and get him to join in. He's the reason Israel is starving the Palestinians, because they know he'll never cut off their weapons no matter how many people they kill.

The one thing he accomplished in that conflict is guaranteeing that Iran will get the bomb. They've seen the examples of Ukraine. contrasted with the kid glove treatment North Korea gets, and they know the only way Israel and the US will leave them alone is if they manage a successful underground test to let the world know they've joined the nuclear club.
 

fastandfurious6

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official peace agreement wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenia–Azerbaijan_peace_agreement 37 year long real conflict, real war torn area, their presidents in white house shaking hands with Trump and signing few days ago. it's a much less known conflict in the western world

you're right about india pakistan, they always have small skirmishes both claim they'll nuke the other but nothing ever happens, then Trump overly boasts about achievements and literally asks them to nominate him lmao. recently Myanmar's junta praised Trump and he removed their tariffs/sanctions lol!

you're right he's fully enabling genocide (biden did way worse, kamala said she would continue exactly the same) but it will end soon, the tipping point is right here. there is a theory that Trump wasn't able to just give the middle finger from day one, they would delete him. don't get me wrong I'm aware he's self claiming he's their biggest friend etc but don't underestimate his intelligence ;)

Ukraine-Russia is more complex to resolve because of EU warmongers (especially leaders of EU commission who also 100% enable the genocide...), west Europe wants more war, they don't want it to end. The claims "Putin wants to conquer Europe" are just scaremongering, he simply doesn't have any means to do it. But I believe peace will be brokered in this soon too.

North Korea is North Korea though South Korea now has a real non-puppet president and tensions between North and South are decreasing.

On Taiwan-China Trump may distance himself from Taiwan and may probably enable China to reintegrate it without any war pending negotiations.

(don't get me wrong I'm neither pro-trump nor rightwing! He causes a lot of harm especially domestically in USA. But it may be real he may do all above. for him the nobel peace prize is probably higher on his list than anything else)

My 2 cents! Let's see what the future brings. I'll quote my post in the near future ;)

now back on topic from geopolitics intel to Intel chips haha
 
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So this is the 'some non-economic benefit' I alluded to above. I could potentially see Apple doing it as a hedge against tariffs/currency/etc. depending on where they see the macroeconomic winds blowing. It wouldn't save them money, but it would mitigate certain kinds of risk. But it wouldn't solve any of the problems anyone here is looking to solve.

The other choice would be Tesla as an AI play who could also pick up SpaceX as a customer provided the latter took on a larger defense contractor role, or maybe Tesla does anyway given some subset of investors have already decided that making cars is dragging the company down. All of the US DOD AI dreams depend on having a domestic manufacturer and I'm not sure Nvidia in an Arizona TSMC plant will cut it. They can always make that exception, but may not want to.
Do you think TSMC will be qualified as a Supplier for DOD even if it's made in USA? It's not an ally nationa like Japan/Australia.

What I see is Chaos and one smart one once said
Let chaos reign then rein in chaos
You may have noticed that government backing hasn't helped Samsung recently (other than to prevent them from going belly-up).
Samsung has tech issue due to IBM IP a reason I don't think Rapidus will succeed.
Intel's yield is way better than Samsung the problem in Intel's case is Culture they never have been a foundry and the Ecosystem which will take time btw they paid Synopsys/Cadence 9 Figures for the IP.

also lol this thread went from Intel US to Asia Pakistan 🤣