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[-] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 14 points 4 months ago

They're too big to fail both in sheer size and strategic importance. I don't see the US government actually letting them fail. But what do I know.

[-] Zron@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

I’m sure Intel makes all sorts of chips for military hardware.

They won’t be allowed to die. How will the missile be able to subtract where it isn’t from where it is if the chip that does the subtracting isn’t made anymore.

I’m wouldn’t be surprised if there hasn’t been a full investigation into the intel fabs due to this. If consumer chips have been melting themselves for years due to shit manufacturing, shouldn’t someone in the DOD be asking if the chips in their fancy missiles are going to melt themselves halfway to the target?

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

They won’t be allowed to die, but we can pressure the government to buy and hold. It’s known that the 08 bailout and sale at a loss was a bad look. A government owned chip company isn’t a bad idea for national security and federal funding

[-] zarenki@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago

The conditions that processors run under in situations like military equipment are drastically different from those of consumer devices. Consistency and stability are more important than performance in those contexts. So much so that RTOS systems like VxWorks are popular in that space. They'd probably already have features like clock boost disabled (or use processors completely lacking it) in favor of a lower fixed clock speed, probably avoiding these issues entirely.