noah smith, we thank you. great writing and great perspective as always.ne thing that could be feeding inflation, some of the blockages we have seen in the chip space. let's look at the chip manufacturing. we can see it with intel taking the lead once again. we have discussed the move and how the business will do better. this is bloomberg. ♪ caroline: one of the major corporate stories of the day centers on intel. the chipmaker and bailing a plan to spend billions on reviving manufacturing, but the ceo is saying intel is back. joe: that's exactly right. multiple stories combining here, because we have the well-known ship shortage that is an acute thing, and -- chip shortage that is an acute thing, and intel announcing it will spend $20 billion on two new u.s. plants to do more manufacturing chips in house. we saw some weakness among the competitors. caroline: weakness among competitors? i am sure we will get the charts any moment now. joe: hey. caroline: there we have it, until down 2.3%, but it is the spillover effect. much lower than 5% at one point afte