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Intel inches closer to $3.5B contract to build secret fabs for Uncle Sam (www.theregister.com)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Makes a lot of sense. If chips are integral part of national defense, there should be redundancy. There could be use cases that the military might be interested in that the free market isn't. Intel has the most complete in-house IP for a full platform, from fabs through hardware to software. AMD makes nice CPUs and GPUs but for example their mainboard chipsets are designed in Asia.