Isn’t the chip itself the thing that’s banned?
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Yup, any chip that reaches a specific processing power is banned
Okay, but why?
Chips are used in warfare and they don't want China to get that.
The irony here is that blocking China from importing certain chips will do little except pressure them even more to develop their own chip manufacturing industry, which is already growing fast
It buys time