Re:US Weighs Banning TP-Link Routers
by rpcope1 on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @02:34PM
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This is what makes me concerned about ever needing to upgrade from my PC Engines APU2. It's about as open as a piece of hardware can get, including using coreboot, but now that they've wound down, there's not a lot of good options that occupy the same niche.
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Re:US Weighs Banning TP-Link Routers
by transpute on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @02:47PM
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PC Engines was a Swiss company with Taiwan manufacturing.
Since APU2 schematics are open, rebooting PC Engines as a US company could be initiated by US leadership requesting AMD to restart production of the AMD GX-412TC SoC, until AMD can ship a Ryzen Embedded alternative with comparable power efficiency. The lack of a replacement SoC forced the end of APU2 and PC Engines.
National policy tools are not limited to banning negative examples, they can also encourage scaling of positive existence proofs.