The U.S. stake in Intel does not amount to a complete government takeover. While the federal government has assumed total control of private corporations before, such incidents have usually arrived during times of crisis — and not with the direct intention of attempting to play the markets.

On Friday, President Trump struck a deal with Intel. In exchange for around $9 billion in grants that the federal government awarded to the chipmaker during the Biden administration, the U.S. government gets an ownership stake in the company — just shy of 10%.

President Donald Trump on Friday announced the U.S. government has secured a 10% stake in struggling Silicon Valley pioneer Intel in a deal completed just a couple weeks after he depicted the company’s CEO as a conflicted leader unfit for the job.