Comment by consumer451
2 years ago
Can anyone with more hardware insight tell me if the brunt of this story is actually true, and how related to this chip AMD's actions were?
> How a Big U.S. Chip Maker Gave China the ‘Keys to the Kingdom’
> Advanced Micro Devices revived its fortunes through the deal, and sparked a national-security battle
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-tried-to-stop-china-acquiri...
Different company! Loongson runs their own MIPS based ISA which is self-developed.
IIRC that company is called Zhaoxin, which has had mild success getting ~Zen 2 performance domestically.
I'm not to sure why WSJ is citing that as a 'national security issue', everything related to China seems to be called that now.
Yeah it's American vs Chinese empire stuff at this point. New cold war and all that.
It is funny, you could take articles from the 1980's about Japan taking over Americas grip on technology, swap Japan to China and they would read almost the same to what we are seeing today.
Yes, there are some different key details but the parallels on the messaging is neat to see.
It's because of last year tensions around Taiwan and TSMC. Reliance on this company hit an all time high and tensions showed that it was strategically risky. So both side have been pushing local foundries projects via grants and other incentives.