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Re:Proposed acquisition of ARM Limited by NVIDIA: public int... by dijit on Monday April 19, 2021 @09:47AM (#26862696)
We get our panties in a bunch (and I do too) about the real high end fabs for CPUs, but push-come-to-shove there _are_ fabs in the UK.

Infineon (German owned) and Nexperia (Dutch owned) both own fabrication plants in the UK, so it's possible to scale that up if we were at war, the knowledge is here.

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Re:Proposed acquisition of ARM Limited by NVIDIA: public int... by klelatti on Monday April 19, 2021 @10:13AM (#26862962)
Fair comment but no one is suggesting that we'll lose access to CPU designs that work on older nodes so the point still doesn't really stack up.
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