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As much as we all love to dunk on Intel, it's good to have competition. Even if it's via the support of the military industrial complex, we still all benefit when there are more companies making chips (especially at home for those in the US).

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I don’t like dunking on Intel. It’s one of the only advanced all American foundry left, I don’t want them gone.

Their technology deserves a lot of praise but their anti-competitive business practices should be shamed. If there was a way to separate the two i would love to see intel as a business go bankrupt but intel as a foundry live on.

Their existence seems tenuous at this point so any criticism, warranted or not could bring the whole thing down in my opinion. At that point the only place making advanced chips is the far east.

If a bit of fair criticism can bring down whole company, they are already gone. Unfair criticism can be easily debunked and any rational person will ignore it.

Market needs as much competition as possible since everybody else benefits from that, but it needs to have some solid foundations, not just wishful thinking or protectionism. if there will be a market hole, others will fill in. If you can't trust ie British or other western chips, why should rest of the world (aka 95% of mankind) trust US ones.

Eh I don’t think anyone in the states will fill the hole if intel collapses so talk of a robust market and competition is kind of moot. I feel you have to do whatever it takes to prop it up because once it’s gone it’s never coming back.

We don’t all benefit when the MIC gets more chips..

The MIC invented this communications medium.

and a Finn invented the kernel that powers the servers, a Frenchman invented the compression used in the bitstreams, and a German made the standard library/runtime that everything else stands atop: if we gave loyalty to all the inventors we're benefiting from right now it would be impossible to go to war with anyone.

You say that as if it's a bad thing.

and they might not have been able to without that MIC that everyone likes to dunk on

> if we gave loyalty to all the inventors we're benefiting from right now it would be impossible to go to war with anyone.

You say as if that is some bad thing?

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