Buying Intel would show just how far that superpower reaches. Broadcom, the newest member of the $1 trillion club is apparently kicking the tires of the once-mighty chip titan now valued at about a 10th of that amount.

People are impatient for Intel to get fixed, and have been for many years. Weird deal after weird deal keeps coming out of the rumor mill, and now we have

Intel is rising but a potential split of the company’s operations between Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing and Broadcom faces major hurdles.