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A government taking a stake in its chipmaker is ordinary infrastructure policy — Taiwan, Japan and Singapore all did it.

Drawn from what Lip-Bu Tan said

government What states are for and what they are worse at than markets and networks: legitimacy, moral hazard, and who may be entrusted with power.

semiconductors The chips and the companies that make them: NVIDIA, TSMC, ASML, and what a fab can and cannot do.

infrastructure Building the large physical things -- reservoirs, roads, pipelines -- and why some countries have stopped being able to.

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  1. Lip-Bu Tan

    Chief executive of Intel since 2025

    Just I explained to President Trump, TSMC when they started they have the Taiwan government as a shareholder. If you look at Japan, you look at Singapore, this is the infrastructure US government get to provide the support.

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