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minus-squareMettled@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up59·2 months 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 (any/all)@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down1·2 months agoAnd let all those backdoors just walk away?
minus-squareMettled@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·2 months agoI assume that you’re at least halfway joking about backdoors in Intel.
minus-squareJerkface (any/all)@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·2 months agoIntel silicon has historically had a lot of “bugs”…
minus-squareMettled@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·2 months agoEvery and any hardware manufacturer can or has.
minus-squaretrolololol@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months 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-down4·2 months 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-squareMettled@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·2 months agoI will take Intel being sold or going under over cronyism and corporate welfare.
minus-squaretrolololol@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 months 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.
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
I will take Intel being sold or going under over cronyism and corporate welfare.
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.