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Re:Nvidia's Arm deal sparks quick backlash in chip industry by roenxi on Monday September 14, 2020 @06:09AM (#24468517)
It'll be a real test of China as we watch how this tech blockade plays out. 60s China would starve all the peasants to make a point. If 2020 China manages to avoid that rookie blunder, it is difficult to see how the knowledge transfer will be stopped. The US is reliant on bullying to make this work - that is not a strategically dominant position, to say the least.

Particularly looking at the Soviets, it is remarkable how often the US's serious adversaries in the last century choose to disembowel themselves. It is a great game to see which government fails beyond recovery first.

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Re:Nvidia's Arm deal sparks quick backlash in chip industry by jsjohnst on Monday September 14, 2020 @08:08AM (#24469133)
> It is a great game to see which government fails beyond recovery first.

The scary thing is, it might be the US next.

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Re:Nvidia's Arm deal sparks quick backlash in chip industry by zouhair on Monday September 14, 2020 @12:01PM (#24471718)
Another 4 years of Trump will clinch it.
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Re:Nvidia's Arm deal sparks quick backlash in chip industry by coolspot on Monday September 14, 2020 @02:16PM (#24473299)
Biden seems to be friendly with China though, which would be a mistake.
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Re:Nvidia's Arm deal sparks quick backlash in chip industry by thu2111 on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @05:11AM (#24479278)
Sounds like wishful thinking. Trump didn't exactly harm the US economically in his first term up until lockdown, but many other countries have "disembowelled" themselves worse over that.

Nor did he commit the US to expensive foreign wars. In fact his primary foreign policy objective was to change the consensus on China, which he appears to have managed without spending a penny. Trade war/cold war with China is now firmly on the global agenda, whereas 4 years ago it wasn't. Even his opponents talk about which parts of his trade barriers to keep vs whether to scrap them entirely.

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Re:Nvidia's Arm deal sparks quick backlash in chip industry by blackrock on Monday September 14, 2020 @12:22PM (#24471983)
What about another 20 years of Trump? He will probably seek to abolish the term limits.
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Re:Nvidia's Arm deal sparks quick backlash in chip industry by Aperocky on Monday September 14, 2020 @11:02AM (#24470987)
Well tech blockade either works or don't work, depending on whether the country has enough resources to completely invent an entire indigenous replacement.

Does China have enough resource? Remain to be seen but odds are slightly in the yes direction.

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