• refalo
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    9 months ago

    with an x86 license

    doesn’t that still mean they are dependent on the West technically?

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      9 months ago

      In it’s roots, yes. But the architecture isn’t banned, just the chips. As an analogy, China can make its own internal combustion engines and not buy Ford cars.

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        9 months ago

        I meant, if they require a license to keep making x86 chips, what’s to stop Intel/the US from revoking it later on?

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          9 months ago

          At this point the licencing is only about Intel getting money, not about China being allowed to produce the chips, me thinks