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Intel might be too big to fail — Washington policymakers are already discussing potential solutions if the chipmaker cannot recover (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Even if they did, starting a chip company is fucking difficult AF. You don't want one mega company. You end up in a situation like Canada where they have one airline company and barely any cell carriers.

Competition is healthy. Fingers crossed that Nvidia starts making x86 CPUs as well as Qualcomm. AMD needs more competition too.

The GPU industry also needs some real competition.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Other chip companies abound, they just cannot make x86. That's been a duopoly for nearly thirty years. VIA was an asterisk on that until they got bought by some Chinese company. Cyrix tried faking their way around it via what we'd now call microcode, and it went poorly.

x86 would become like ARM... which admittedly could be devastating toward RISC-V.