[rossdavidh]

If we had a single organization developing our national CPU manufacturing process, it would likely have been staffed much like Intel, since Intel is the big gorilla and the people best able to climb the organizational ladder ended up there. Thus, I think it would be more accurate to say that this is an example of why you DON'T have a single, national organization do something as important as this.

[individualcell]

I am not saying there should be one. Each state could have its own division / separate entity to enable competition.

[lstodd]

yeah, and that would end up about as glorious as state pension funds did.