>The other option is to let MBAs run Intel even further into the ground

or worse, the government runs Intel into the ground while constantly taking more taxes to prop it back up.

Incompetent private companies eventually dissolve. Uncle Sam can siphon your paycheck in perpetuity.

Bingo - the solution to this is already programmed into the free market. Intel's failure can't be turned back around, especially not 10 years after the first cracks started showing.

It's not inherently wrong to want to prop up American chipmaking, but it is wrong to deny reality. No matter how much American scrip you put on the table, Intel's mistakes can't be undone faster than China can beat them.

I agree with you. I shouldn't have framed this as a false dilemma, and I didn't put a whole lot of thought into my comment.