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Re:US holds off blacklisting China's DeepSeek, +100 firms de... by dist-epoch on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @03:24PM (#48575488)
> except for nVidia GPUs which were export restricted anyway,

those export restrictions are a joke. when they were introduced, there was a sudden spike in NVIDIA GPU exports to surrounding Asian countries. and the US government knows this

CXMT memory maker will not be banned, because US AI labs are salivating at the idea of more RAM supply, and are lobbying hard to prevent restrictions

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Re:US holds off blacklisting China's DeepSeek, +100 firms de... by alephnerd on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @03:39PM (#48575736)
And those who enabled it (the leadership team at SuperMicro) were charged by the US [0] and Taiwan [1]

[0] - https://www.reuters.com/world/us-charges-three-people-with-c...

[1] - https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/taiwan-investigates...

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Re:US holds off blacklisting China's DeepSeek, +100 firms de... by overfeed on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @04:13PM (#48576181)
> And those who enabled it

There is no single "it", the Singapore loophole is well known, and nothing has been done about it. Except by China, once , when it blocked the sale of Manus to Meta, even though on paper, Manus is a Singaporean enterprise.

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