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Re:TSMC and Google push chipmaking boundaries with 3D 'stack... by colechristensen on Thursday November 26, 2020 @04:10AM (#25218261)
It would make designing advanced CPUs for foreign manufacture illegal so further advancements couldn’t be stolen and ensuring on shore chip fab capability.

“export” controls doesn’t mean just goods, but also designs, specifications, even basic information

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Re:TSMC and Google push chipmaking boundaries with 3D 'stack... by varispeed on Thursday November 26, 2020 @04:39AM (#25218407)
> so further advancements couldn’t be stolen

How would you ensure the advancements couldn't be stolen? I thought we learned over the years that if hostile power wants a technology, sooner or later they will get it.

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Re:TSMC and Google push chipmaking boundaries with 3D 'stack... by colechristensen on Thursday November 26, 2020 @05:10AM (#25218572)
It’s about adding friction, not achieving perfection. Chips are so complex and fabs so specialized and elaborate that it would seem relatively easy to keep development secrets rather well. They already have to build them in high grade clean rooms.
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Re:TSMC and Google push chipmaking boundaries with 3D 'stack... by adrianN on Thursday November 26, 2020 @11:52AM (#25221568)
Recall that the Manhattan Project was done under as much secrecy as you could possibly hope for, but that there were multiple independent spies.
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