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That would be a HUGE Conflict of Interest if he was also a Government Official overseeing things like Regulation and Contracts! Intel would be his THIRD or FOURTH or FIFTH company that would rely on Government Funding!

Sounds terrible. I'm sure it'll happen cuz we live in hell.

No responsible board should sell as much as a paper clip to this sociopathic weenis piss baby.

If Leon buys Intel, then I will switch permanently to AMD or the loser is playing with the market.

Of course Elon Musk wants his grubby hands on the Arizona chip factory.

Imagine being a business willing to risk everything getting involved with this lunatic lol

If businesses nowadays were people we'd have interventions for them or lock them up for their own sake.

This was always the inevitable outcome of capitalism. Just some rich lying dipshit buying the world.

This rumor sounds like a crypto pump and dump.

Please buy Intel stock so we can sell ours!!

So he'll pay again twice the amount of money, then run the company off a bigger cliff than it's currently falling off already?

I'll heat up the popcorn

I don't see how Qualcomm buying Intel ever flies when Nvidia was blocked from buying ARM.

That's one way to finally kill x86.

They have to old slogan of intel inside ready to be rebranded as incel inside

Look at the way Tesla collects and treats customer data, and the way Musk seems to unilaterally abuse his control over the companies he owns for personal reasons.

Now think about the capabilities of the Intel Management Engine that pretty much every Intel CPU requires.

Bad vibes, I say.

For those feeling out of the loop, see here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine

Tldr - it's a little always on processor, running a Minix OS, with direct access to all board devices including the Ethernet Controller.

AMD has something similar in form of their Platform Security Processor.

Right, because Intel needs MORE problems.

AMD: “Go for it!”

Isn't he busy enough buying the United States right now?

That would be good news for AMD

He’s going to rename the i series to something ridiculous like i69, i420, i1337, and iX isn’t he?

I appreciate him doing this after intel lost their magic, otherwise, it would have been much harder emotionally.

On one hand “noooo!” But on the other this would be great for ARM and RISC-v if Intel tanks.

I was about to get extremely upset, and then I remembered I haven't used intel since 2012.

Who wants to get in bed with Elon so he drives the brand into the ground? How much has Fidelity written down their investment in Twitter, 80%?

Mixed feelings about this as someone with a relatively (per my portfolio) huge investment in Intel. It would result, eventually, in the end of Intel. But so many dumb people with so much money keep throwing money at his crap companies so it might work out in the short term to get out with a profit.

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/elon-musk-buying-intel-could-be-poor-outcome-says-citi-1034241743

This is the only reputable outlet that had anything to say about it.

They reference SemiAccurate as the source, which I have not heard of before, but seems to have a solid track record with accurate reporting.

GET. FUCKED. MUSK.

I have to say, having an all-AMD setup makes me feel slightly okay today, even though AMD is just another shit company. At least it's not in the running to be owned by that fucking tool.

Holy fuck no thank you

Everyone is focusing on Musk but uh, Global Foundries wants to be involved in buying Intel?

The same Global Foundries that's utterly incapable of progressing their tech stack?

The one AMD created when they got rid of their foundries and was happy to do so?

That amuses the shit out of me.