AMD may have failed to dumb down its chips enough to allow China sales AMD reportedly failed at an attempt to dumb down its AI chips to a level at which Washington DC is happy for them to be exported to China. A Tuesday Bloomberg report quotes folks familiar with the matter as saying AMD cooked up an AI chip that falls well short of its most sophisticated silicon in hope that it would fall …
Given Xi Jinping's behaviour it is pretty much a guarantee that there will be a war between the west and China within the next 15 years. When China's economy collapses due to their demographics the CCP will be overthrown, so they will start a war to invade Taiwan before that happens to try and distract the population.
> Given Xi Jinping's behaviour it is pretty much a guarantee that there will be a war between the west and China within the next 15 years.
translation: The US military industrial intelligence complex is losing influence in the world and is attempting to re-gain such by provoking China or Russia into a conflict.
This is essentially the same old argument (*) that those who preach tolerance are hypocrites if they don't extend that to include tolerance for intolerance and the intolerant. Even when it's being used to deliberately undermine the same societal tolerance they're exploiting in the first place.
Ditto freedom of speech. I've no problem with shutting down channels like Russia Today that use free speech in the West to push and reinforce a regime that actively works to suppress and deny that same freedom of speech to opponents in its own country. Doubly so when it can- and does- happily exploit that privilege in a one-sided manner to undermine the West itself (including its freedom of speech that they depend on).
(Disclaimer; No, that doesn't mean that I'm an uncritical supporter of the US and/or the current administration- or any other- who can and have in the past used issues like this to behave in a self-serving manner. But the general principle still stands.)
(*) Typically used in bad faith by those on the right and far right- who have no compunction against hypocrisy or contradicting their own "principles" when it suits them- purely as a would-be-"gotcha!" against those who would actually care about and constrain themselves with such things.
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