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minus-squareMettled@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up60·3 days agoIf Intel can’t pay their own bills from Intel’s money, they can be sold to a private company, file for chapter 11, or go out of business.
minus-squarejerkface@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down1·3 days agoAnd let all those backdoors just walk away?
minus-squareMettled@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·3 days agoI assume that you’re at least halfway joking about backdoors in Intel.
minus-squarejerkface@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·2 days agoIntel silicon has historically had a lot of “bugs”…
minus-squareMettled@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agoEvery and any hardware manufacturer can or has.
minus-squaretrolololol@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agoWhat he means is the feature of having a lightweight OS with no documentation running under the OS you as a customer is running. https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/s/c6bhbowtrf
minus-squareLeroyJenkins@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down4·3 days agoas much as I think Intel is dumb, it’s definitely not in the consumers best interest for Intel to go out of business or absorbed into another company
minus-squaretrolololol@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 days agoWhy is it in anyone’s best interest to keep it as a monopoly if it can’t pay its bills? Its products are going to stagnate either way, injecting money is useless.
minus-squareMettled@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·3 days agoI will take Intel being sold or going under over cronyism and corporate welfare.
If Intel can’t pay their own bills from Intel’s money, they can be sold to a private company, file for chapter 11, or go out of business.
And let all those backdoors just walk away?
I assume that you’re at least halfway joking about backdoors in Intel.
Intel silicon has historically had a lot of “bugs”…
Every and any hardware manufacturer can or has.
What he means is the feature of having a lightweight OS with no documentation running under the OS you as a customer is running.
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/s/c6bhbowtrf
as much as I think Intel is dumb, it’s definitely not in the consumers best interest for Intel to go out of business or absorbed into another company
Why is it in anyone’s best interest to keep it as a monopoly if it can’t pay its bills? Its products are going to stagnate either way, injecting money is useless.
I will take Intel being sold or going under over cronyism and corporate welfare.