{"id":956295,"date":"2025-08-20T08:56:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T03:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=956295"},"modified":"2025-08-20T09:29:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T03:59:48","slug":"us-government-and-softbank-to-back-intel-with-fresh-investments-why-it-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/20\/us-government-and-softbank-to-back-intel-with-fresh-investments-why-it-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"US government and SoftBank to back Intel with fresh investments: Why it matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: Global semiconductor major Intel is all set to secure two major sources of fresh financial support \u2014 from the US government and from Japanese investment group SoftBank \u2014 as it pushes ahead with plans to revive its technology leadership and expand semiconductor manufacturing in the US. <\/p>\n<p>On Monday, SoftBank Group announced its plans to buy $2 billion worth of Intel shares at $23 per share. This deal makes SoftBank one of Intel\u2019s top ten shareholders, though it will not take a board seat or commit to buying Intel chips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: Global semiconductor major Intel is all set to secure two major sources of fresh financial support \u2014 from the US government and from Japanese investment group SoftBank \u2014 as it pushes ahead with plans to revive its technology leadership and expand semiconductor manufacturing in the US. On Monday, SoftBank Group announced its plans to buy $2 billion worth of Intel shares at $23 per share. This deal makes SoftBank one of Intel\u2019s top ten shareholders, though it will not take a board seat or commit to buying Intel chips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-956295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}