That's probably a fantastic idea, seeing how good the state has been at managing funds and investments in the past few decades (especially the debt is looking real good). It's much the same around these parts; companies where the state goes in heavy always do really well (for an example, read about the hugely successful "Northvolt" project).

I didn't even realize this was a thing.
Seems unethical at first glance, but I don't know enough about this to make an educated comment.

Totally not what fascist regimes do.

The same people using China as a boogeyman are acting more and more like China every day, what with the Internet policing and now the state taking over private companies.

And now they're trying to annex Canada.

Thanks for nothing, America.

Wonder how long it's going to take before Trump forces his own handpicked board members onto Intel's board.

Won't be long before he does that, and they'll all be on the Epstein list just like he is. No wonder he's not releasing the Epstein files.

That was likely a part of the deal. 

Chips for rockets

I was going to say this, but you did it first. Sadly the only other real alternative isn't all that much better, but at least it's not owned by the US (I think?). That said, Intel is doing so poorly at the moment that you'd really have to go out of way to buy Intel anyway, at least if you were building your own PC.

I'm glad I got my PC built a couple of years back and don't have to worry about this too. I guess Intel's GPUs are off the table for my next GPU ugprade though, not that they're probably attractive enough even at that point.