John Coogan

That's pretty sick.

Oh, yeah.

He just paid for grok perfectly.

Yeah, he's like, I'm up.

I got gains.

I need to offset these.

So Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has met repeatedly over the last year with high-ranking Apple officials, including CEO Tim Cook, as well as SpaceX Chief Elon Musk, NVIDIA Chief Jensen Wang, to try and convince them to get into business with Intel.

There was a discussion about should NVIDIA dual-source the Grace CPUs from Intel, SpaceX, and Elon's been with Samsung for a lot of Tesla chips, but there's been discussion there.

There was that rumor about global foundries, and Elon's always been in and around the fab

world, and he's obviously going a lot deeper with the long-term TerraFab project.

So Commerce Secretary Howard Letnick was trying to convince them to get into business with Intel.

Some of the people familiar with the matter said, with the Apple deal, Intel has now signed partnerships with all three.

So over the last decade, Intel fell badly behind rivals, this is from the Wall Street Journal, such as TSMC and Samsung Electronics.

After a series of technical mishaps, leadership changes, and failed attempts at consolidation led outside founder customers to pull or curb their businesses.

when Intel hired Tan in March of 2025, wow, just a year ago, to replace ousted chief executive pal Gesslinger.

President Trump raised concerns that Tan's close ties with China would compromise him and called for his ouster.

It was a very, very dramatic moment, but

Tan won Trump over with a charm offensive.

I like that.

And the government announced its 10% investment in Intel shortly after.