News Pentagon pulls out of Intel's $2.5 billion CHIPS Act grant, expects Commerce Department to foot the bill

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The Pentagon pulled out of a plan to give Intel more CHIPS Act funding.

Pentagon pulls out of Intel's $2.5 billion CHIPS Act grant, expects Commerce Department to foot the bill : Read more

 

[Pierce2623]

Yet we still manage to get Pat G ballriders around here quite often. Yeah now you’ll support the market leader demanding the entire Chips Act for themselves. Intel is great at looking like douchebags. As far as I’m concerned, Intel, AMD and Nvidia should all be totally disqualified from receiving Chips act funding. They’re all huge multinationals that really only claim to be American when it’s beneficial.

 

[cyrusfox]

Yet we still manage to get Pat G ballriders around here quite often. Yeah now you’ll support the market leader demanding the entire Chips Act for themselves. Intel is great at looking like douchebags. As far as I’m concerned, Intel, AMD and Nvidia should all be totally disqualified from receiving Chips act funding. They’re all huge multinationals that really only claim to be American when it’s beneficial.

Nvidia and AMD don't run fabs, they were never in the running for chips act.

 

[NinoPino]

The moneys of CHIPS that goes to Intel are a concern for a fair concurrency vs AMD in primis and also any other Intel competitor.
The only way to give subsidies to Intel and mantain a fair competition would have be to split the manifacturing division from Intel and create an independent company.

 

[TechLurker]

The moneys of CHIPS that goes to Intel are a concern for a fair concurrency vs AMD in primis and also any other Intel competitor.
The only way to give subsidies to Intel and mantain a fair competition would have be to split the manifacturing division from Intel and create an independent company.

Seems like it might be heading that way regardless; Intel recently stated they're looking to put up a metaphorical wall between Intel Design and Intel Fabs via a new and entirely separate Fabrication business and management team whose focus will be getting customers regardless of who they are, and getting their Fabs operating at full tempo. Even if it meant that in a theoretical, AMD or NVIDIA would have a larger production share than Intel on occasion. Moreso considering the costs of investment to keep their Fabs roughly on par with TSMC and Samsung, and making back the investments through production sales.

 

[NinoPino]

Seems like it might be heading that way regardless; Intel recently stated they're looking to put up a metaphorical wall between Intel Design and Intel Fabs via a new and entirely separate Fabrication business and management team whose focus will be getting customers regardless of who they are, and getting their Fabs operating at full tempo. Even if it meant that in a theoretical, AMD or NVIDIA would have a larger production share than Intel on occasion. Moreso considering the costs of investment to keep their Fabs roughly on par with TSMC and Samsung, and making back the investments through production sales.

I mean completely separates entities, another CEO, another board, another corporate ownership.
Actually the silicon division is separated only from an operational point of view but at the end of fiscal year is always Intel.

 

[jkflipflop98]

Yet we still manage to get Pat G ballriders around here quite often. Yeah now you’ll support the market leader demanding the entire Chips Act for themselves. Intel is great at looking like douchebags. As far as I’m concerned, Intel, AMD and Nvidia should all be totally disqualified from receiving Chips act funding. They’re all huge multinationals that really only claim to be American when it’s beneficial.

Tell me you don't know squat about the industry without telling me you don't know squat about the industry...

 

[Squishynidas]

As far as I know, Intel is the largest semiconductor manufacturer in the USA. If the goal is to make US semiconductor manufacturing stronger, it makes sense that Intel is getting quite a bit.

 

[JayNor]

"Considering the main purpose of the CHIPS Act is to revitalize American fabrication and manufacturing operations, diverting so much of that money to the incumbent market leader could be seen as a poor approach."

... an incumbent who funded the last15 years of research into advanced packaging, backside power delivery, GAA transistors and now is willing to expand fab capacity and provide a much needed second source.

 

[kjfatl]

Intel has a 9.1% share of the worldwide semiconductor market. To be competitive on a worldwide stage they need to be at 20% or higher. The only other US player that is significant is TI. Global foundries and the other remaining US fabs are akin to penny stocks vs the S&P500.

 

[Disappointed1]

Intel is watching TSMC flaunt the buy American part of the Chips Act and still receive funds when they import significant quantities of construction materials manufactured in Asia that are readily available from US manufacturers. If TSMC gets away with it, Intel will also purchase materials from Asia….