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If Apple is using Intel to make its own chips, "I'm thrilled," former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger says, adding: "Whether that's Apple, Nvidia, Qualcomm, AMD — all of them need to be building at Intel factories for the future. They need to be building more in the US."

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