The Trump administration’s big Intel investment comes from already awarded grants

[u/Franco1875]

https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/23/the-trump-administrations-big-intel-investment-comes-from-already-awarded-grants/

[u/aquarain]

These are strange numbers. $8.9B for 10% of a company with $100B in fab spending plans? The scale is off.

[u/PainterRude1394 → u/aquarain]

Market cap and capex are different things

[u/aquarain → u/PainterRude1394]

They are. And this ratio is upside down.

[u/PainterRude1394 → u/aquarain]

You're so close to understanding that Intel is not in a great spot financially and that's why this is happening.

[u/aquarain → u/PainterRude1394]

One of us has missed something for sure.