processors are not trivial to make.
I’ve been saying it for years, we need to produce our own chips.
This article doesn’t even mention ASML so I consider it pretty moot.
ASML is the leading international semiconductor machine supplier and is a Dutch company.
Who follow American export rules
To make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
Actually a good step in the right direction, but it’s not the end.
RISC-V already exists so why not build on that?
It said RISC-V is decades away
“There is no immediate solution. RISC-V, the open source processor architecture European sovereignty advocates point to as a long-term alternative, remains years from competitive performance in datacenter workloads. “It will take decades,””
RISC-V isn’t in the same scenario. There’s one company behind ARM with a few external companies with architecture licenses (who doesn’t share their contributions), and ARM competes mostly just on the same commercial terms so for a long time it wasn’t worth investing in single core performance because they could instead fill the efficiency niche.
Also there’s more knowledge on how to build high performance cores. Doesn’t mean it’s trivial, but it means the lead isn’t several decades. With enough investment you can make it happen faster. And there’s a national security motivation for investing.
That may be so (hopefully), I’m just a layman quoting an expert.
It is almost like non technical people who can not follow technical advice are making all the decisions.
nah it’s not that simple. it’s mostly about cost. chip manufacturing is hella expensive and developing new chip manufacturing techniques is even more expensive. it’s cheaper to do it all in one place in taiwan instead of every country opening its own chip manufacturers. it’s only now due to security considerations that this is changing, but it takes 10 years to build a chip manufacturing site somewhere.
Would that it were so simple.
I have managers at my work having meetings on how they are going to rollout win11 and intune. They want to tell the technical people how it’s going to work.
Goodacre catalogues this and related scenarios in a 37-page risk assessment prepared for CISOs evaluating Intel vPro hardware connected to corporate networks. Its conclusion is blunt: connecting an untouched-ME device to corporate resources “exposes the organization to a class of compromise that defeats the host security stack in its entirety.”
I hear a lot of concern about backdoors in Chinese hardware but this is just dystopian.
I’m convinced that all the “China is tracking you!!” is a giant deflection for how much the US is tracking.
They have always been the worst offender, and Snowden was only a warning for something that has been going on for many years.
You take your choice: Mossad or the PLA.
Anyone who wouldn’t go with China over Amerisrael a million times over is simply a victim of unbelievable volume of propaganda.
The US is by far the single worst, most oppressive country on the planet and it isn’t even close.
I still can’t get over the fact that everyone is running minix on their silicon.
