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Despite the massive ongoing semiconductor-dependent digital revolution, the market has been brutal to chip stocks this year, and it can still get a lot worse. Intel's growth rate is pitiful compared to better innovators like Nvidia and AMD, and now it wants the US government to help it compete with foundry king, Taiwan Semiconductor, oof!
moderately negative