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The U.S. now owns a big chunk of Intel. That’s a huge deal.

2025-09-12 00:00:00 +0000 UTC ·25m 26s ·by NPR
The U.S. now owns a big chunk of Intel. That’s a huge deal.
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Last month, President Donald Trump announced an unusual deal. Intel, the biggest microchip maker in America, had agreed to give the United States a 10 percent stake in its business. That means the U.S. government is now Intel’s largest shareholder — and a major American company is now a partially st