OpenAI won’t buy Intel’s chips — even after Trump took a government stake
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OpenAI has been making it rain infrastructure deals. The AI startup just dropped another $38 billion on Amazon Web Services, adding to agreements with Oracle, Microsoft, AMD, and a plethora of other deals that total over $1 trillion this year so far.
But there’s one company conspicuously missing from the invite list to this very expensive party. Intel, the former belle of the Silicon Valley ball, is now watching everyone else dance.
The cold shoulder is particularly awkward given that the Trump administration took a chunk of Intel earlier this year. For an administration that treats dealmaking like a competitive sport and sees making advanced chips at home a matter of national security, you’d think getting OpenAI and Intel together would be irresistible — a political slam dunk wrapped in an American flag.
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