Intel Awarded Up to $3B by the U.S. Administration for Secure Enclave

[Nomad76]

The Biden-Harris Administration announced today that Intel Corporation has been awarded up to $3 billion in direct funding under the CHIPS and Science Act for the Secure Enclave program. The program is designed to expand the trusted manufacturing of leading-edge semiconductors for the U.S. government.

The Secure Enclave program builds on previous projects between Intel and the Department of Defense (DoD) such as Rapid Assured Microelectronics Prototypes - Commercial (RAMP-C) and State-of-the-Art Heterogeneous Integration Prototype (SHIP). As the only American company that both designs and manufactures leading-edge logic chips, Intel will help secure the domestic chip supply chain and collaborate with the DoD to help enhance the resilience of U.S. technological systems by advancing secure, cutting-edge solutions.





The Secure Enclave award is separate from the proposed funding agreement that Intel reached with the Biden-Harris Administration in March of this year to support the construction and modernization of semiconductor commercial fabrication facilities under the CHIPS and Science Act.

"Intel is proud of our ongoing collaboration with the U.S. Department of Defense to help strengthen America's defense and national security systems," said Chris George, president and general manager of Intel Federal. "Today's announcement highlights our joint commitment with the U.S. government to fortify the domestic semiconductor supply chain and to ensure the United States maintains its leadership in advanced manufacturing, microelectronics systems, and process technology."

Today's announcement reflects the continued progress of Intel Foundry, which brings together all the components customers need to design and manufacture chips at the leading edge. Intel Foundry is nearing completion of a historic pace of design and process technology innovation with its most advanced technology - Intel 18A - on track for production in 2025. The company, which develops and produces many of the world's most advanced chips and semiconductor packaging technologies, is advancing critical semiconductor manufacturing and research and development projects at its sites in Arizona, New Mexico, Ohio and Oregon.

Intel has a long-standing history of working closely with the Department of Defense. In 2020, Intel was awarded the second phase of the SHIP program, allowing the U.S. government to access Intel's advanced semiconductor packaging capabilities in Arizona and Oregon and leverage Intel's substantial annual R&D and manufacturing investments. In 2023, Intel successfully delivered the first multi-chip package prototypes under the SHIP program, a major achievement in ensuring access to cutting-edge microelectronics packaging and paving the way for modernization for the DoD.

In 2021, Intel was awarded an agreement to provide commercial foundry services for multiple phases of the DoD's RAMP-C program, which aims to leverage U.S.-based commercial semiconductor foundries to produce custom and integrated circuits for critical DoD systems. Since then, Intel has successfully onboarded several defense industrial base (DIB) customers, including Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Microsoft, IBM, Nvidia and others, and has made progress in developing early DIB product prototypes. This progress showcases the readiness of Intel's 18A process technology, intellectual property and ecosystem solutions for high-volume manufacturing.

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So here's this handout for... um... security. Yeah. Here's 3bn for security stuffs. We're not the Chinese, we don't "subsidize" our companies, we funnel billions programs for cutting edge tech.

 

[Neo_Morpheus]

Like Boeing, intel is too big to fail, so Uncle Sam will make sure they stay alive, regardless of the state of their zombie corpses.

 

[AnarchoPrimitiv]

Like Boeing, intel is too big to fail, so Uncle Sam will make sure they stay alive, regardless of state of their zombie corpse.

explain how Intel is "too big to fail"

 

[damric]

There's no way this $3B would pass a ballot initiative when 48% of the population lives hand to mouth. We have the technology for direct democracy. The time of cronie representatives must end.

 

[Dr. Dro]

There's no way this $3B would pass a ballot initiative when 48% of the population lives hand to mouth. We have the technology for direct democracy. The time of cronie representatives must end.

Corporate cronyism? In my America? Never!

 

[AusWolf]

If you think you pay taxes so that rich fat politicians can put it in their pockets, you're hugely mistaken. You pay taxes so that rich fat corporate overlords can put it in their pockets.

 

[Dave65]

This is bullshit giving them money.

 

[mechtech]

exec bonus's incoming...................

 

[Daven]

explain how Intel is "too big to fail"

Any company that gets huge government cash infusions are considered “too big to fail”. The nicest way to explain this is that the government thinks the bankruptcy of Intel will negatively impact our security and economy with no competing company being able to fill the gap. The reality is that too big to fail companies bribe politicians to help them survive their own bad business decisions caused by greed that would otherwise lead to their demise. A fair, healthy market would allow the company to fail so that it doesn’t bring down the overall economy.

 

[Neo_Morpheus]

explain how Intel is "too big to fail"

In the same way that the Air Force will never use an Airbus plane to replace the president plane, none of the gov agencies and branches will consider another vendor to make their secret chips.

The possible replacements, assuming no bribery, etc, etc, are indeed AMD and IBM but they (gov) will hate doing such change for all the logistics involved.

 

[eidairaman1]

If you think you pay taxes so that rich fat politicians can put it in their pockets, you're hugely mistaken. You pay taxes so that rich fat corporate overlords can put it in their pockets.

Not supposed to get rich in public service, but they are

 

[kondamin]

There's no way this $3B would pass a ballot initiative when 48% of the population lives hand to mouth. We have the technology for direct democracy. The time of cronie representatives must end.

Like it was no issue at all to pass hundreds of billions for never ending wars, i Would have no issue at all to swap the numbers

In the same way that the Air Force will never use an Airbus plane to replace the president plane,

I demand A custom Lockheed SR 71 for aircraft one NOW!!!

let Boeing crash and burn like their ‘aircraft’ there is a clear market alternative for the government.

 

[Neo_Morpheus]

let Boeing crash and burn

Oh, I agree.

I just doubt that Lockheed wants to deal with the civilians market, at least, it looks like thats case.

 

[InVasMani]

Still awaiting that 3 Billion handout to Gamestop.

 

[eidairaman1]

Oh, I agree.

I just doubt that Lockheed wants to deal with the civilians market, at least, it looks like thats case.

Look up MD80 and a jackscrew

 

[trsttte]

The possible replacements, assuming no bribery, etc, etc, are indeed AMD and IBM but they (gov) will hate doing such change for all the logistics involved.

They're not replacements since they went fabless (I believe IBM still does some stuff but not at cutting edge). There's Global Foundries - they're also thrusted and in use for defense stuff - but they're still a couple steps behind Intel.

For all their woes, Intel is still a great silicon manufacturer, not great enough to compete with latest nodes used in the latest iphone/nvidia gpu but not that far as headlines would have us believe.

I demand A custom Lockheed SR 71 for aircraft one NOW!!!

Lockheed doesn't have commercial planes, but given how bad Boeing is fucking up, another big merger might not be completely outlandish

 

[Neo_Morpheus]

They're not replacements since they went fabless (I believe IBM still does some stuff but not at cutting edge). There's Global Foundries - they're also thrusted and in use for defense stuff - but they're still a couple steps behind Intel.

For all their woes, Intel is still a great silicon manufacturer, not great enough to compete with latest nodes used in the latest iphone/nvidia gpu but not that far as headlines would have us believe.

My scenario assumed a dead intel (praise the lord for that miracle) hence others picked up their carcass clean, meaning their foundries belonging to others and contracted by AMD or IBM for those gov requests.

 

[A&P211]

Like it was no issue at all to pass hundreds of billions for never ending wars, i Would have no issue at all to swap the numbers


I demand A custom Lockheed SR 71 for aircraft one NOW!!!

let Boeing crash and burn like their ‘aircraft’ there is a clear market alternative for the government.

My crew and I service Boeing 737-8, -9 model planes. I'm only going to say that, according to my company's pilots, its not very wise to fly in them, even after their software updates and updated pilot training.