I think you should get your facts straight, Arthur. First of all, this was a leak, reported by Bloomberg, not an announcement by Intel. (And Bloomberg rates very low on my high-tech industry credibility scale. Some here may remember the Bloomberg-Supermicro fiasco, where Bloomberg claimed that China had used Supermicro to insert chips onto server motherboards sold to cloud computing companies to send data back to China. No physical evidence has ever been made public that this was the case.) Second, even if the leak is correct, and I think it is since Intel (always) has too much fat in sales, marketing, and product planning, most of the impact is said to impact sales and marketing, which makes sense. If it happens I'll be applauding Gelsinger. Third, whatever manufacturing expansions take place will be one or more years in the future, and there are no mentions anywhere of laying off fab employees. Finally, Intel doesn't "ask" for money under the CHIPS Act. The way the law works you either have qualifying expenditures or you don't. Every semi manufacturer in the industry lobbied for the CHIPS Act, so singling out Intel is silly.