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Re:Nvidia's Arm deal sparks quick backlash in chip industry by Joker_vD on Monday September 14, 2020 @06:18AM (#24468558)
> Their growth is slowing, they've got major structural issues internally,

Those exact words has been making the headlines in the newspapers since 1989 at least, every single year, and yet here we are today, at the point where the US is willing to dismantle half of the global trade only to stop China from accessing whatever useful technology it still has not bought in the West.

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Re:Nvidia's Arm deal sparks quick backlash in chip industry by Fnoord on Monday September 14, 2020 @07:29AM (#24468929)
> from accessing whatever useful technology it still has not bought in the West.

Or stolen.

Examples among many other include Nortel/Huawei, Chinese state hackers trying to get into ASML.

And whenever a company wants to do business in China, they need to create a subsidiary in China. The Chinese communist party has a fellow embedded in said subsidiary, and they can veto anything.

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