I swear Im not trying to be glib or dismissive, but I honestly think you dont know what "privatization" means, this is the exact opposite.

Maybe they mean "privately owned by the government". Which I guess is usually called nationalization

Exactly. This amounts to a partial nationalization of Intel.

No offense taken, my understanding of the term could was wrong. I hope it doesn't take anything away from my argument though. I think I wanted to use the term "deprivatization" instead, I only remember this topic distantly from reading about communism and economics.