(Reuters) -Donald Trump announced on Friday that the US State was going to take a 10% stake in Intel capital, with the agreement of the computer giant, in difficulty, and that other investments of this type were possible.
The details of this operation will be communicated later, said a source close to the file, while the American president was to meet this Friday the director general of Intel, Lip-Bu Tan, according to a representative of the White House.
The two men have already met on August 11 after Donald Trump called for the resignation of the Intel boss because of his supposed links with Chinese companies.
“He arrived by wishing to keep his post and he ended up giving us $ 10 billion in the United States. So we took $ 10 billion,” Donald Trump said on Friday.
During the current Intel action, 10% of the capital represent approximately $ 10 billion (8.5 billion euros). The Intel title closed on Friday up on 5.5% to $ 24.80 on the New York Stock Exchange.
The group was not expressed immediately.
The secretary of commerce, Howard Lungick, wrote on X that the agreement had been sealed. “The United States of America now has 10% of Intel,” he said, saying that the agreement was good for Intel as for “the American people”.
If no clarification has been provided on this sum of $ 10 billion, this amount is equivalent to that which Intel is supposed to receive within the framework of the loans granted by the federal state via the ACT chips to contribute to the financing of assembly factories of computer chips in the United States.
This investment is the latest in a series of unusual agreements concluded between the public authorities and large companies in the United States since Donald Trump’s return to the White House. The American federal government has recently authorized NVIDIA, giant fleas for artificial intelligence, to sell its H20 models in China provided it pays off 15% of the amount of these sales.
(Aditya Soni in Bangalore and David Shepardson, Andrea Shalal and Nandita Bose in Washington, with Juby Babu in Mexico; Kate Entringer and Bertrand Boucey)
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