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China is quietly reducing its reliance on foreign chip technology (www.economist.com)
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[–] Heavybell@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I wonder if/when they are competitive, if I'll be able to buy a China desktop.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The way things are going they are probably coming up with some interesting ARM or RISCV stuff.

[–] Heavybell@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

That's what I was thinking, yeah.

[–] RatherBeMTB@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If you live in the US probably not.

[–] Heavybell@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Yeah, if I lived in the US it wouldn't be a question. But seeing as there's no domestic chip manufacturing in my country there's no loyalty question for me; whatever tech I get, I'm ceding some power to a foreign state so it doesn't matter so much which I pick.