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by dgacmu 2793 days ago
Your post reads like trolling, but if you're actually interested in the real history of this, semiconductor manufacturing has been a joint industry/govt. thing for almost its entire lifetime. As one starting point, read about SEMATECH: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEMATECH

DARPA has long played a huge role in furthering US semiconductor capabilities.
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individualcell 2793 days ago
Look, we have state police, army and then see how disastrous private healthcare turned out to be.

Maybe DARPA should step up their game then, as instead of nationalising the Intel they could nationalise their IP and work on affordable and _fast_ CPU for the people as Intel fails to deliver.

We are yet to see a private company landing human on the moon. Imagine what CPU we could have today if state really took over.

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dgacmu 2793 days ago
I'm not trying to argue with you, because you still sound like you're trolling. I'm providing some information about this topic for others so they have a better grounding for reasoning about the issue. Semiconductors are one of the most interesting grounds for discussing the role of private industry and the state in advancing the state of the art in technology. See, for example:

http://mitsloan.mit.edu/shared/ods/documents/?DocumentID=461...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41928-017-0005-9

and

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1545155

[Full disclosure, I'm married to one of the authors.]

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