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It might have been the biggest winner of the last president's chips act to stimulate U.S. semi manufacturing by getting part of a $7.86 billion grant. Will Intel get more money from Washington? Intel carries $46 billion in long-term loans, so Intel needs the money badly. It's shocking that Intel shares aren't even lower.
Revolving door of CEOs -- hard to find someone with both business and engineering skills. If you ever see it up around $25, take a bit of profit. Or write some calls against it as it gets close if you don't want to get taken out. It will have its day, but it reminds him of IBM. Believes that with Mr. Trump on the throne, he'll protect this company pretty carefully.
A business that's hard to turn around. Core competency was chips for PCs. NVDA is really good at chips for data centres and AI. INTC can't innovate and catch up to that. Behind, and going to stay behind. Now they're on turnaround strategy 2.0, selling the fab business and spinning off things. Sell. Won't turn around well.
Makes sense for QCOM to be interested, as it's a path to being more vertically integrated. Could create more synergies than other players. But you can't buy a stock hoping for a takeout; it may not occur.