By Jaspreet Singh, Max A. Cherney and Sayantani Ghosh SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump is injecting nearly $9 billion into Intel in exchange for a 9.9% equity stake. But the money - which the struggling chipmaker was slated to receive anyway under a federal funding act - will not be enough for its contract-chipmaking business to flourish,

The move comes after days of discussion in Washington about options for the troubled American chip-maker’s future.

Intel is expected to receive about $10 billion in CHIPS Act grants from the government to help fund the building of chip plants in the U.S.