Intel CEO Hits Out at 'Misinformation' After US President Calls on Him To Resign
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/08/08/0721242/intel-ceo-hits-out-at-misinformation-after-us-president-calls-on-him-to-resign
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> In [3]a letter to Intel staff published late on Thursday , Tan said that Intel was "engaging" with the Trump administration "to address the matters that have been raised and ensure they have the facts."
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> "There has been a lot of misinformation circulating about my past roles...âI want to be absolutely clear: Over 40+ years in the industry, I've built relationships around the world and across our diverse ecosystem -- and I have always operated within the highest legal and ethical standards," Tan wrote.
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> Tan's move to reassure staff at Intel, the only US-headquartered company capable of manufacturing advanced chips, came hours after Trump had demanded his resignation in a post on Truth Social. Trump did not detail Tan's alleged conflicts of interest but the U.S. president's broadside followed a letter from Tom Cotton, the Republican head of the Senate intelligence committee, to Intel's chair expressing "concern about the security and integrity of Intel's operations" and Tan's ties to China.
[1] https://www.ft.com/content/42b32597-97f7-4f12-b9bf-5ea4da2a483b
[2] https://slashdot.org/story/25/08/07/1427230/us-president-calls-on-intel-ceo-to-resign-over-china-ties
[3] https://newsroom.intel.com/corporate/my-commitment-to-you-and-our-company
Distraction/Deflection. (Score:5, Informative)
Even if it were true that Tan were a 100% hardcore chicom sleeper agent; this whole thing would still be a pitiful little sideshow given that he only got the job after a long string of honest, god-fearing, red blooded, American suits shareholder-valued the company into a position of alarming decline.
The cutting he has been doing does have the disconcerting taste of someone juicing today's numbers at the expense of tomorrow; but unless the problem is that that's supposed to be American Private Equity's job; an executive cutting the future to ribbons to propitiate the shareholders in the short term is hardly something you need a foreign saboteur to do when we've been actively rewarding that for some time now.
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The issue isn't sabotage. The issue is technology transfers to geopolitical enemy number one.
This is literally how PRC rose up. It infiltrated companies, and either had its agents rise through the ranks and sell them the tech, or rise through the rank to gain access and steal it for them. And in some rare cases, they just bought the company with technology they deemed critical outright with massive state funding when Western natsec bureaucracy failed to spot it in time and intervene.
Let me give you an examp
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> The issue isn't sabotage. The issue is technology transfers to geopolitical enemy number one.
What are you basing this opinion on?
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Observation of reality as it is, rather than as pro-PRC propaganda would like to paint it.
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And yet Trump was just having a grand time with his friend Tim "Apple" Cook yesterday. Apple, and Tim Cook personally, is responsible for a huge amount of tech transfer to China. Where are the calls for Tim Cook to resign?
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Intel CEO didn't give him [1]a piece of glass with his name on it [yahoo.com] so Big Baby Trumpington is acting out. All the kids have to get him a present or he throws a fit, waddles into to his room and Truths all over himself.
[1] https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/apples-rare-gift-donald-trump-050000956.html
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Why is that bad? Doesn't America believe in equality? Why don't we want the same technology benefitting societies everywhere?
highest legal and ethical standards (Score:4, Funny)
...and I have always operated within the highest legal and ethical standards
That's exactly it. Now resign and let someone with lesser legal and ethical standards kiss some ass.
He had a real chance here. (Score:5, Funny)
He could have simply said the words "fake news" in a public statement and caused Trump to go into a long string of his brain's equivalent of divide by zero errors. Instead, we get this coherent statement. I'm so disappointed.
Re:He had a real chance here. (Score:5, Informative)
Reply back with this photo. [1]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gk... [twimg.com]
[1] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gkr2ZZ9XMAAx1Co?format=jpg&name=900x900
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Aw, look at those buddies!
As always with cheeto (Score:4, Informative)
And republicans in general, every accusation is a confession .
Epstein files please. (Score:2)
Getting tired of the distractions. Vance managed to have his strategy meeting to figure out what to do about distracting the public.
I don't expect the Epstein files are going to change anything. Anyone who voted for Trump has long since figured out they voted for a pedophile and they are going to have a rough time facing that reality so they will probably retreat into comfortable lies.
But I am enjoying the mess. I am also enjoying how it has completely derailed the Republican legislative agenda beca
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Ghislaine is going to get a pardon, she's been treated so unfairly when all she did is traffic. Last I checked traffic tickets are about a $500 fine that's it. Sure she ruined some lives, but those lives were of low income (low value) people .. think instead of all the great billionaires and politicians her actions brought joy to.
The MAGAs do. They already moved her to the luxury prison.
Bend the knee or faces calls to resign (Score:5, Insightful)
CEO of a company decides not to kowtow to an authoritarian = "he must resign"
CEO of a company bends the knee and gives authoritarian a piece of gold = "I'll waive your import tariffs"
Plain sight racism (Score:2)
Nothing else to see here folks. Just plain old racism.
Worse than my uncle. (Score:2)
Christ, this dude is worse than my uncle who I normally only have to deal with every Thanksgiving.
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> Optane? Shitcanned
Probably with good reason, I can't see it being a technology that would have been easily understood by technology buyers who would have wanted real RAM in any case if they did, even if it costs more.
> X86S -- killed, which would have allowed them to make x86 chips with orders of magnitudes far fewer transistors
No it wouldn't. It would have reduced the amount of space on the die needed for microcode and that's about it. Even in the highly unlikely event they were implementing the 8
Trump Apparently Forgot His Own China Ties (Score:1)
Trump is being extremely hypocritical here given his own and his family's financial ties to China (they are extensive). To me, him calling out Tan appears to be more about racism and potentially J.D. Vance's friendship with Gelsinger more than anything else.
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Literally everything out of that dummy's mouth is hypocritical or disingenuous.
Wait it out (Score:4)
He already got bored of yammering on about Harvard, I'm sure his interest in intel will equally pass.
Re:Wait it out (Score:5, Insightful)
He may have but his justice dept. hasn't. That's now the problem, la Presidenta gets his dainty little panties in a twist over something and then uses the Fed. Gov. to screw with the entity that caused him to see an "emergency".
BTW: his justice dept. has been hemorrhaging lawyers, something about them having scruples or not wanting lose their law licenses (it won't be long before he decides law licenses have to go as well). So right now they are severely understaffed. I'm sure he'll be able to scare up a enough Nazis to refill the ranks. He has a similar problem with ICE, so they are beating the bushes to get more storm troopers. And whom will they be chasing after they run out of migrants? They aren't building those gulags for just the migrants.
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Assessment is spot on.