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The Trump administration’s massive Intel funding comes from already awarded grants


Intel formally introduced an settlement with President Donald Trump’s administration on Friday afternoon, following Trump’s assertion that the federal government could be taking a ten% stake within the struggling chipmaker.

Whereas Intel says the federal government is making an “$8.9 billion funding in Intel widespread inventory,” the administration doesn’t look like committing new funds. As an alternative, it’s merely making good on what Intel described as “grants beforehand awarded, however not but paid, to Intel.”

Particularly, the $8.9 billion is meant to return from $5.7 billion awarded-but-not-paid to Intel beneath the Biden administration’s CHIPS Act, in addition to $3.2 billion additionally awarded by the Biden administration by means of the Safe Enclave program.

In a publish on his social community Fact Social, Trump wrote, “America paid nothing for these shares.” Nonetheless, he described this as “an amazing Deal for America and, additionally, an amazing Deal for INTEL.”

Trump has been crucial of the CHIPS Act, calling it a “horrible, horrible factor” and calling on Home Speaker Mike Johnson to “get rid” of it. In a regulatory submitting in June, Intel mentioned that whereas it had already acquired $2.2 billion in CHIPS Act funding, it had subsequently requested an extra $850 million in reimbursement that the federal government had not but paid.

In accordance with The New York Occasions, some bankers and legal professionals imagine the CHIPS Act could not permit the federal government to transform its grants to fairness, opening this deal to potential authorized challenges.

Along with his concentrating on of the CHIPS Act, earlier this month Trump additionally accused Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan of conflicts of pursuits and mentioned he ought to “resign instantly.” The president was extra constructive about Tan on Friday, saying on Fact Social that he “negotiated this take care of Lip-Bu Tan, the Extremely Revered Chief Govt Officer of the Firm.”

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For his half, Tan mentioned in a press release that the corporate is “grateful for the arrogance the President and the Administration have positioned in Intel, and we sit up for working to advance U.S. know-how and manufacturing management.”

Intel’s announcement additionally says the federal government’s funding shall be “passive,” with no board seats or different governance and data rights.

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