'I'm all for it': Dell CTO backs Trump's 10% Intel stake
Semiconductors are too important for the US to not be able to manufacture them, Dell CTO and chief AI officer John Roese said during a visit to Sydney.
The chief technology officer of Dell has backed the US government's purchase of a 10% stake in Intel, saying semiconductor production is too valuable an asset for the country to lose.
Speaking to Capital Brief during a visit to Sydney, Dell's John Roese said the US should protect every part of the semiconductor supply chain it can.
"If the outcome is that I can produce and get access to semiconductors when I need them, long-term and no matter what the geopolitical climate looks like, I'm a happy person and I'm all for it," Roese said. "How they [the US government] does it is up to them."
Dell has been among Intel's biggest customers for decades, slotting the chipmaker's CPUs into tens of millions of PCs each year. That relationship has continued as Dell, now worth over USD81 billion ($124 billion), makes much of its profit from data centre infrastructure, integrating Intel's Xeon processors into its server range.
