Microsoft’s Windows and foreign database programs also sidelined as Beijing favours Chinese hardware and software
Among the 18 approved processors were chips from Huawei and state-backed group Phytium. Both are on Washington’s export blacklist. Chinese processor makers are using a mixture of chip architectures including Intel’s x86, Arm and homegrown ones, while operating systems are derived from open-source Linux software.
Do you have any idea how protectionist China has been for the past several decades? Nothing the US has done comes even close to their long standing policies.
They ban certain media properties and cultural imports, but they’ve been open for business to developers and industry my entire life. This recent wave is way different. This is an actual industrial supply-side commodity that is used in production, not a controversial movie.
Something new has been happening since America launched the chip tradewar and the performative attacks against Xinjiang province.
In all likelihood, they’ve been open for business to make it easier to nab intellectual property from the rightful owners. China has probably just decided they’ve learned enough to make their own “homegrown” products, and can safely kick all the western businesses out of the market.
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What controversial movie are we talking?
Well they banned Ghostbusters for depicting ghosts.
Maybe “controversial” isn’t the right word.