China Tells Telecom Carriers to Phase Out Foreign Chips in Blow to Intel, AMD

Re:China Tells Telecom Carriers to Phase Out Foreign Chips i... by lowenergyphoton on Friday April 12, 2024 @01:00PM (#40015115)

There's no way they invade Taiwan in a controlled manner, it's too easy to sink a navy over that distance. Sure they could do a long range bombardment but then there's nothing left to take.

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Re:China Tells Telecom Carriers to Phase Out Foreign Chips i... by causi on Friday April 12, 2024 @01:04PM (#40015169)

Sure they could do a long range bombardment but then there's nothing left to take.

This is irrelevant. Not because you're wrong, but because you're thinking of terms of what a rational, reasonable person would do. Taking Taiwan has about as much to do with helping China as the Iraq War had to do with avenging 9/11: nothing whatsoever. If China attacks Taiwan it will be for the sole reason that Xi Jinping has and is using it as a political tool to amass power. For that purpose it doesn't matter if Taiwan is a smoking crater by the end.

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Re:China Tells Telecom Carriers to Phase Out Foreign Chips i... by Qwertious on Friday April 12, 2024 @01:21PM (#40015331)

Taking Taiwan would be useful as a naval base. And to deny the US the ability to blockade the pacific ocean.

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Re:China Tells Telecom Carriers to Phase Out Foreign Chips i... by kelipso on Friday April 12, 2024 @03:15PM (#40016601)

Seriously. There's a reason US has military bases on islands down the whole east coast of China.

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Re:China Tells Telecom Carriers to Phase Out Foreign Chips i... by Simulacra on Friday April 12, 2024 @06:20PM (#40018266)

Taiwan is the only thing essentially protecting Japan.

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Re:China Tells Telecom Carriers to Phase Out Foreign Chips i... by hackerlight on Friday April 12, 2024 @01:23PM (#40015349)

Are you an expert on naval warfare?

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