That would be a HUGE Conflict of Interest if he was also a Government Official overseeing things like Regulation and Contracts! Intel would be his THIRD or FOURTH or FIFTH company that would rely on Government Funding!
As if republicans would care…
No responsible board should sell as much as a paper clip to this sociopathic weenis piss baby.
Now give me an example of a corporate board at Intel's scale being responsible when given the choice between being responsible or buttloads of short-term profits.
this is the company that at one time chose to buy mcafee.
But why!?
McAfee was a solid product in the beginning, it turned to crap after it's admittedly crazy founder sold it off.
Yeah, dude is straight bat shit, but he made a good product. Buying McAfee wasn't the mistake, ruining it was
I'd bet money McAfee has destroy more registries then it has protected.
Ultimately, the board doesn't control who can buy stock.
If Leon buys Intel, then I will switch permanently to AMD or the loser is playing with the market.
That's a silly reason to pick a piece of tech IMO. I buy exclusively AMD because they offer great value, especially since they support their sockets for a long time. For their GPUs, they have fantastic drivers on Linux.
I honestly don't care who owns them, I care that the quality is good for the price. I don't find that to be true for Tesla, so I don't own one. If he buys Intel, that won't change my opinion of their products, I'll still avoid them because he value isn't there.
switch permanently to AMD
So glad I switched to AM5 on my last main gaming rig rebuild last year lol
Imagine being a business willing to risk everything getting involved with this lunatic lol
If businesses nowadays were people we'd have interventions for them or lock them up for their own sake.
Elon has money, intel needs money
So he'll pay again twice the amount of money, then run the company off a bigger cliff than it's currently falling off already?
I'll heat up the popcorn
Of course Elon Musk wants his grubby hands on the Arizona chip factory.
This was always the inevitable outcome of capitalism. Just some rich lying dipshit buying the world.
I think elons would be needed to be broken down by government like the Rockefellers.
Yeah.
And there's a very good chance that Elon spends his waning years in and out of every court, trying to stay out of jail.
Source: Rockefeller's biography.
And that's actually the optimistic version, from Elon's perspective. There's been plenty of rich assholes in history that didn't have to worry about the courts.
Epstein doesn't have to worry about the courts anymore
I don't see how Qualcomm buying Intel ever flies when Nvidia was blocked from buying ARM.
Corruption
This rumor sounds like a crypto pump and dump.
Please buy Intel stock so we can sell ours!!
Look at the way Tesla collects and treats customer data, and the way Musk seems to unilaterally abuse his control over the companies he owns for personal reasons.
Now think about the capabilities of the Intel Management Engine that pretty much every Intel CPU requires.
Bad vibes, I say.
For those feeling out of the loop, see here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine
Tldr - it's a little always on processor, running a Minix OS, with direct access to all board devices including the Ethernet Controller.
AMD has something similar in form of their Platform Security Processor.
Isn't he busy enough buying the United States right now?
He’s going to rename the i series to something ridiculous like i69, i420, i1337, and iX isn’t he?
The new Incel X series
Right, because Intel needs MORE problems.
They have to old slogan of intel inside ready to be rebranded as incel inside
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