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Intel IS the national lab for chips, Intel doesn't need the government. The government, indeed America, needs Intel.
Ayyy.
Another win for the future of the industrial tech OG in what has already been a long line of them this year. The biggest reason for this - as noted in other threads - is really due to how it was able to leverage its relationship with capital equipment manufacturer ASML in securing first dibs on the firm's next-generation extreme ultraviolet lithography machines and all but assure Intel regains the bleeding edge in process technology -- IF it can hit all of its production targets over the next four years. The article's referenced 18A (1.8nm) tech is expected in 2025.
No surprise IBM is directly involved in the project.
This also comes at a time when TSMC is rapidly expanding on its plans to offshore tech assets and move cutting edge production over to the United States in the face of the CCP's increasingly hostile rhetoric towards Taiwan. The US government has been trying to get them to open stateside manufacturing operations for years and they will be fully integrated into the geostrategic and national security fold. TSMC didn't purchase 1,130 acres in North Phoenix to put up a single factory and call it a day. It wouldn't be any stretch to say that 2021 has been the biggest boon for stateside advanced manufacturing in American history.
Fabulous.
CC: @ElKarlo