The federal government has identified semiconductor manufacturing as a critical piece of national infrastructure. If it comes to it, Intel can get subsidized like Boeing.
More money can fix a lot of mistakes, like making it financially viable to start from "scratch" (whatever that means in context), or fund multiple redundant teams trying more ideas in parallel.
Gotta fucking love it. Our American industries are becoming so incompetent and corrupt that we just start giving them free cash in hopes that they fix themselves.
Instead it just becomes permanent socialism for corporations and by socialism, I mean free hand outs to the non-engineers MBA fuckheads that run these companies to drain them for cash.
I presume it was incorrect technical decisions rather than a lack of money.