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[–] Mettled@reddthat.com 62 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)

And let all those backdoors just walk away?

[–] Mettled@reddthat.com 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I assume that you're at least halfway joking about backdoors in Intel.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Intel silicon has historically had a lot of "bugs"...

[–] Mettled@reddthat.com 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Every and any hardware manufacturer can or has.

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

That's not going to go away by switching to AMD or some ARM implementation, they all have their own equivalent. Maybe if you're running some fully libre open-source RISC-V chip, but those are currently nowhere near capable of competing on the big stage for anything other than embedded/hobbyist stuff.

[–] LeroyJenkins@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] Mettled@reddthat.com 13 points 4 days ago

I will take Intel being sold or going under over cronyism and corporate welfare.

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

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.