The Trump administration’s huge Intel funding comes from already awarded grants

Intel formally introduced an settlement with President Donald Trump’s administration on Friday afternoon, following Trump’s assertion that the federal government could be taking a ten% stake within the struggling chipmaker.

Whereas Intel says the federal government is making an “$8.9 billion funding in Intel frequent inventory,” the administration doesn’t seem like committing new funds. As a substitute, it’s merely making good on what Intel described as “grants beforehand awarded, however not but paid, to Intel.”

Particularly, the $8.9 billion is meant to return from $5.7 billion awarded-but-not-paid to Intel underneath the Biden administration’s CHIPS Act, in addition to $3.2 billion additionally awarded by the Biden administration by the Safe Enclave program.

In a submit on his social community Fact Social, Trump wrote, “The US paid nothing for these shares.” Nonetheless, he described this as “a fantastic Deal for America and, additionally, a fantastic Deal for INTEL.”

Trump has been important of the CHIPS Act, calling it a “horrible, horrible factor” and calling on Home Speaker Mike Johnson to “get rid” of it. In a regulatory submitting in June, Intel stated that whereas it had already acquired $2.2 billion in CHIPS Act funding, it had subsequently requested a further $850 million in reimbursement that the federal government had not but paid.

In response to The New York Occasions, some bankers and attorneys consider the CHIPS Act could not permit the federal government to transform its grants to fairness, opening this deal to potential authorized challenges.

Along with his focusing on of the CHIPS Act, earlier this month Trump additionally accused Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan of conflicts of pursuits and stated he ought to “resign instantly.” The president was extra constructive about Tan on Friday, saying on Fact Social that he “negotiated this cope with Lip-Bu Tan, the Extremely Revered Chief Government Officer of the Firm.”

For his half, Tan stated in an announcement that the corporate is “grateful for the arrogance the President and the Administration have positioned in Intel, and we sit up for working to advance U.S. know-how and manufacturing management.”

Intel’s announcement additionally says the federal government’s funding will likely be “passive,” with no board seats or different governance and knowledge rights.