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Re:Tesla’s China Dream Threatened by Standoff Over Shanghai ... by Retric on Thursday February 15, 2018 @03:35PM (#16387389)
Intel and several others successfully abandoned China without issue. The rational choice in high tech manufacturing is to say as far away as possible.
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Re:Tesla’s China Dream Threatened by Standoff Over Shanghai ... by rasz on Thursday February 15, 2018 @05:16PM (#16388264)
Intel gave China x86 IP for free (atom) + another Billion dollars "investment" to build a fab, all just in case they would be next in line for anti monopoly fine after Qualcomm got punished. Intel used to dump Atoms below manufacturing cost on Chinese market, their domestic SOC vendors didnt like that and it was either handouts painted as joint venture or heavy fines.
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Re:Tesla’s China Dream Threatened by Standoff Over Shanghai ... by bilkoo on Thursday February 15, 2018 @03:44PM (#16387447)
Wait, what do you mean Intel abandoned China?
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Re:Tesla’s China Dream Threatened by Standoff Over Shanghai ... by Retric on Thursday February 15, 2018 @04:24PM (#16387771)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_manufacturing_si...

Intel's only factory in china uses 300 or 65 nm processes. That's Pentium 4 level manufacturing, and clearly not using critical x86 IP.

They are currently building yet another US factory for 7 nm processes.

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Re:Tesla’s China Dream Threatened by Standoff Over Shanghai ... by fspeech on Thursday February 15, 2018 @05:37PM (#16388414)
Not sure if you know about export control and the Wassenaar Arrangement. I don't think Intel can manufacture in China at the advanced node even if they wanted to.
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