Comment by colechristensen

There's an option for the US to buy an additional 5% if Intel sells so it doesn't have majority ownership of its fabs.

But I think the real strings are a soft, private insistence that Intel won't be allowed to sell itself overseas.

The Defense Production Act and the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States would be used to prevent the sale. The carrot is the whatever $18B in grants and investment, the stick is legislation that allows the government to prevent a sale.

https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/international/the-co...