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Re:U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6 by joe_mamba on Saturday June 27, 2026 @05:51AM (#48696742)
>Well, there was the kerfuffle around PS3 (IIRC) and 'supercomputers'.

There were no export restrictions on the PS3.

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Re:U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6 by ajdegol on Saturday June 27, 2026 @06:27AM (#48696967)
Double precision cell chips were reserved for military, I think (or maybe also blade processors). So doing any serious physics on them was dead in the water - same with macs tbh
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Re:U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6 by joe_mamba on Saturday June 27, 2026 @06:43AM (#48697054)
PS3 had not the same Cell chips as the sones for data centers.
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Re:U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6 by xentripetal on Saturday June 27, 2026 @06:20AM (#48696928)
They meant PS2. Japan was worried the processor was powerful enough to control missiles and put restrictions on how many can be sold to a single person and banned certain countries.
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Re:U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6 by DrBazza on Saturday June 27, 2026 @07:28AM (#48697311)
I probably did ;)
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Re:U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6 by DrBazza on Saturday June 27, 2026 @07:28AM (#48697305)
I said kerfuffle. I didn’t say ‘export’.
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Re:U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6 by KingMob on Saturday June 27, 2026 @06:18AM (#48696911)
They were probably thinking of the PS2, which Japan did, in fact, temporarily restrict: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-apr-17-fi-20482...
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