See also: US Gov’t taking a stake in Intel.

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/talks-are-reportedly-underway-for-the-us-gov-to-take-a-stake-in-intel-and-its-share-price-has-already-jumped-7-percent-in-response/

I’m guessing that PCs preloaded with Windows 12 will have locked bootloaders.

It turns out that there isn’t one big break, there are many small cracks that have been patched. I was reading about 13% performance increase in benchmarks, which seems significant.

Ah, here it is: https://www.phoronix.com/review/debian-13-benchmarks