[achempion]

Why would they buy exactly 49% and not 51% of Intel? If these extra 2% are not available, why buy 49% then and not just 2-5%?

[bathtub365]

They don’t want a successful foreign company to have a controlling interest in their failing domestic company

[tremon]

Is your "they" the same as the parent's "they"? Seems like you're talking about different parties.

[seanmcdirmid]

They want to ensure that TSMC doesn't have a controlling stake.

[sct202]

The remaining 51% would be highly fractured unless it was like the US government on the otherside. One of the publicly traded companies I worked at effectively got taken over with <20% of regular shares by an activist billionaire.

[rvba]

The 51% would be controlled by the few people from funds, who live in USA - and who are easy to "influence"

[seanmcdirmid]

Ya, they would have to make their stake non-voting regardless, then what would be the point? I don't think Trump thought this through.