[Thorrez]

Who would TSMC buy the shares from?

Would they buy existing shares from investors? Would they really find enough investors willing to sell shares at market price? I doubt it. There would be a lot of investors that would rather hold than sell at market price. Market price is the current minimum price an investor is willing to accept. Not the price that all investors are willing to accept.

Would they buy new shares issued by Intel? That seems more likely to me. That would be a bailout to Intel.