Intel is a company that I have admired for many years.
However, recently they have been dropping the ball. They lost a chance to penetrate the phone market which is now mostly ARM based. They are loosing market share on the server arena with AWS launching their own ARM based processors. Falling behind in the GPU space with AMD having bought ATI. Lost Apple as a client who is now rolling out their M1/2 line of processors (and complicating developers' life who now need to cross compile lol).
Instead of upping their game and pushing ahead with their factory to lead the US semiconductor manufacturing, they seem to be trying to use the factory's construction to pressure someone in the government to do something (unclear what to me since I am not "in the room where it happens").
Intel says they may need / spend 100 Billion dollars on the project. Is that a lot of money for what they would be making? And then, when it is done, will it be competitive with these new 2 nano-meter fabs being planned? How much smaller can it go from there?
However, recently they have been dropping the ball. They lost a chance to penetrate the phone market which is now mostly ARM based. They are loosing market share on the server arena with AWS launching their own ARM based processors. Falling behind in the GPU space with AMD having bought ATI. Lost Apple as a client who is now rolling out their M1/2 line of processors (and complicating developers' life who now need to cross compile lol).
Instead of upping their game and pushing ahead with their factory to lead the US semiconductor manufacturing, they seem to be trying to use the factory's construction to pressure someone in the government to do something (unclear what to me since I am not "in the room where it happens").