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    News Former SK hynix employee charged with stealing tech for Huawei — Chinese national was arrested at airport

    This woman is charged and not indicted so let's go at that first but I doubt that these charges would stick. 1) This person thinks looks like she specializes in fixing defects in semiconductors, what kind of IP did she stole? Maybe she knows the process of how to fix these issues and it is not...
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    News Loongson's ambitious CPU roadmap shows 128-core chiplet-based processors incoming

    The US at this point is preventing export of their datacenter CPU's so this is the only CPU's that many Chinese companies will buy. Last year they already had 32 core cpu's for datacenters and this is the next gen cpu's.
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    News Microsoft offers to relocate nearly 10% of China-based staffers to the US or allied nations — AI and cloud engineering exodus from China begins

    This is a whole bunch of BS. These Chinese employees are already working internally in Ai and cloud division having access to their IP and can easily 'steal' it so they don't have to be out of their country to do it. Second, even these Chinese employees leaves China to the west, these...
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    News Vendor releases an Intel motherboard for Anime fans — iCraft B760M Cross comes decked out with pastel colors

    Considering that a Mobo is hidden inside a computer, it would be more effective if you have something like a case or a monitor which have this kind of bling would be better.
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    News Multiple Arm vendors are making chips for desktop PCs — Arm exec says Qualcomm Snapdragon won't be the only game in town

    I don't know if it will have 100% software compatibility for 3rd party applications especially legacy ones. I will believe it when I see it.
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    News China seizing TSMC would be 'devastating' for U.S. economy, Commerce Secretary says

    What a load of garbage. If the Chinese want these to 'seize' TSMC so bad, then why did they spent tens of billions on buying litography machines to be self sufficient?
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    News Intel issues revenue warning after US revokes Huawei export licenses — further efforts to restrict China's access to AI chips

    The export licenses doesn't hurt Huawei anymore. Huawei uses intel laptop chips to power its matebooks and it is not their bread and butter. Huawei used to use qualcomm soc's for their matepads, but they can easily replace it with kirin soc's.
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    News AMD uses Ryzen AI to upscale old 40th Anniversary special featuring Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang

    I recall the ex-CEO Jerry Sanders said "Real Men have Fabs." Famous last words.
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    Question Server Build Advice/Recommendations

    You also forgot to mention the cost for a person to maintain these VM's. If you put these VM's in house, you have to have an in house server person to maintain that which would increase the cost significantly. 60 vm's is not alot compared to 1-2 people that you have to hire to maintain these...
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    News Chinese may be evading Nvidia GPU sanctions with Dell, Gigabyte, and Supermicro servers: Report

    If anybody learn from Russia about sanctions is that they don't work. Russia can get western items from Coca Cola to iphones. For these commodity items , 3rd party brokers can simply buy them and ship it to places where it is illegal to sell. I'm pretty sure that there's some 3rd party...
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    News Three suspected Chinese spies arrested in Germany — caught stealing sensitive tech secrets

    Lol, you seriously drink the western propaganda kool aid if you believe US and Canadian says that their detainment is illegal and arbitrary. Canada's Global Security Reporting Program (GSRP) makes claims that these people are not spies is just hillarious because this organization gathers...
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    News Three suspected Chinese spies arrested in Germany — caught stealing sensitive tech secrets

    https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canada-ready-pay-settlements-two-men-imprisoned-china-2018-report-2023-12-26/ Perhaps it is politically motiviated because Huawei is a nationally important company in China. But in this article, it says "The Canadian government has offered around C$3...
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    News Three suspected Chinese spies arrested in Germany — caught stealing sensitive tech secrets

    Most developing or developed countries has a intelligence agency and they are spying on each other, including US, UK and China. Even the CIA admits that the intelligence contacts in China are being rounded up and jailed.
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    News More memory price increases blamed on Taiwan earthquake, but hikes were happening months before, and major manufacturers aren't based in Taiwan

    I doubt SMIC and YMTC has much to do with the price increase. The memory made by the Chinese companies are mostly for local consumption and they are trying to establish themselves because national security reasons IE Trade bans. Bigger players Samsung and Hynix are in the export market and...
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    News Loongson ships 10,000 CPUs in pilot test with 50 schools in China

    There's a few reasons 1) US has been slapping to sanctions to Chinese companies and entities, so it might there come a time where China can't buy Intel hardware 2) Google services is pretty much banned in China, so I would imagine that China is making some kind of google classroom ecosystem like...