Comment on U.S. takes 10% stake in Intel as Trump flexes more power over big business

• zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  For real, this just further cemented me not wanting to buy any new Intel devices.

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  • Decq@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    So true, I’ve officially bought my last Intel product, though I didn’t know it at the time… A shame cause I was interested in their GPUs at maybe some point in the future. From now on it’s either ARM or AMD. Can’t support a company (partially) controlled by a fascism regime.

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• UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Their biggest problem is that people don’t want to buy their stuff because it’s bad, they can worry about their backdoory image later

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  • mushroommunk@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Honestly this. Their cpus melting down over the past couple years and their refusal to even acknowledge it hurt their image more than any potential backdoor could.

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• frazw@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Intel never deserved trust. They rigged the game by cheating on benchmark tests and deserve the karma they are currently enjoying.

  I guess the average consumer would not be very aware of Intel being so shitty, but now everyone has a reason to be wary of them.

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• vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  There’s literally Intel Management Engine or how is it called.

  And they are literally an American corporation that has always benefited from American governments pressuring competitors from other countries, and that was important for MIC since 70s.

  So that kind of trust was a clear no since long before I was born.

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• socialsecurity@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Intel is a us corporate they do as the US spooks tell them to do.

  That's national security laws.

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• Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah… no one who this matters to thought that anyway. Either you get Chinese or US backdoors in your hardware. This has always been true. Theoretically Intel could make some backdoorless chips for government use though, but we won’t have access to that.

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