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achempion | 6 months ago

Why would they buy exactly 49% and not 51% of Intel? If these extra 2% are not available, why buy 49% then and not just 2-5%?

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bathtub365|6 months ago

They don’t want a successful foreign company to have a controlling interest in their failing domestic company

tremon|6 months ago

Is your "they" the same as the parent's "they"? Seems like you're talking about different parties.

seanmcdirmid|6 months ago

They want to ensure that TSMC doesn't have a controlling stake.

sct202|6 months ago

The remaining 51% would be highly fractured unless it was like the US government on the otherside. One of the publicly traded companies I worked at effectively got taken over with <20% of regular shares by an activist billionaire.