☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 months agoChina orders telcos to rip out American chips by 2027www.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up150cross-posted to: technology@hexbear.nettechnology@lemmygrad.ml
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minus-squarerefalo@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 months ago with an x86 license doesn’t that still mean they are dependent on the West technically?
minus-squareBroken@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 months agoIn 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.
minus-squarerefalo@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-23 months agoI meant, if they require a license to keep making x86 chips, what’s to stop Intel/the US from revoking it later on?
minus-squareMiaou@jlai.lulinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 months agoAt this point the licencing is only about Intel getting money, not about China being allowed to produce the chips, me thinks
doesn’t that still mean they are dependent on the West technically?
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.
I meant, if they require a license to keep making x86 chips, what’s to stop Intel/the US from revoking it later on?
At this point the licencing is only about Intel getting money, not about China being allowed to produce the chips, me thinks