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If Intel can't pay their own bills from Intel's money, they can be sold to a private company, file for chapter 11, or go out of business.
And let all those backdoors just walk away?
I assume that you're at least halfway joking about backdoors in Intel.
Intel silicon has historically had a lot of "bugs"...
Every and any hardware manufacturer can or has.
What he means is the feature of having a lightweight OS with no documentation running under the OS you as a customer is running.
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/s/c6bhbowtrf
That's not going to go away by switching to AMD or some ARM implementation, they all have their own equivalent. Maybe if you're running some fully libre open-source RISC-V chip, but those are currently nowhere near capable of competing on the big stage for anything other than embedded/hobbyist stuff.
as much as I think Intel is dumb, it's definitely not in the consumers best interest for Intel to go out of business or absorbed into another company
I will take Intel being sold or going under over cronyism and corporate welfare.
Why is it in anyone's best interest to keep it as a monopoly if it can't pay its bills? Its products are going to stagnate either way, injecting money is useless.