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Re:RISC-V based single board computers are getting there by nirui on Sunday July 31, 2022 @10:28PM (#32301245)
It might not be this easy. The dilemma is this: if the company produces good product, then they will probably gaining market beyond just regional.

The international supply chains of today's world was grown organically, driven by the market where inferior company and their products gets replaced by better (sometime just slightly) ones.

However, I do agree that a Plan B is required in many fields, but I guess you need huge amount of government subsidies to keep them running.

Re:RISC-V based single board computers are getting there by AnthonyMouse on Monday August 01, 2022 @02:25AM (#32302739)
One way to do this is to make domestic production a requirement for government contracts. Then the government contracts ensure domestic production exists, and pays off a lot of their fixed costs, which may make them competitive in the global market. Or maybe competitors are still cheaper.

But more than one country can do this, which ensures supply chain diversity. And if one of them falters, the others may be more expensive, but they exist.

Re:RISC-V based single board computers are getting there by snovv_crash on Monday August 01, 2022 @03:26AM (#32303112)
Then people will complain about government waste and using out of date tech.
Re:RISC-V based single board computers are getting there by hulitu on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @12:39PM (#32320977)
> The international supply chains of today's world was grown organically, driven by the market where inferior company and their products gets replaced by better (sometime just slightly) ones.

I would say corruption played an important part, especially in Eastern europe. MS products are expensive for poor countries. Coca cola without "exclusive deals" would not have the same market share (Hello wrigley, hello lindt, hello intel). The shitty bananas in Europe have nothing to do with organic growing of the market.