Intel's (very) public troubles have inevitably invited every tech commentator on the interwebs to posit a theory as to what should be done next with the troubled chipmaker. While Intel itself seems to be debating which bits to carve off to survive, several former executives have made their opinions known as to whether carving the company up is the best way forward, or whether that's a terrible idea for both Intel and the US as a whole.
Four former Intel directors have written a column for Fortune, suggesting that Intel should be forced to split its chip design and foundry business by the US government (via Tom's Hardware). They argue that, as Intel is the only large-scale American manufacturer of advanced semiconductors, it's in the interests of the US government to leverage its CHIPS act funding to force Intel "down a better path" by severing the chip maker into two separate businesses, just as AMD separated its manufacturing arm into GlobalFoundries back in 2009.
