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Frankly, the fact that Nvidia and AMD both haven't been claimed partly by the US military as a matter of national security. Kind of baffles me.
It's like having your own personal arms dealer selling weapons directly to your biggest enemy smiling while it happens.
While war profiteering is an American pastime. This feels like the current administration is kind of missing the point.
I'm also pretty sure that if the American government did lock down Nvidia and AMD for security reasons or claimed a chunk of them, it's not going to be a good thing for the world.
But at the same time like yeah...
Trump has been railing against NATO since the 80's.
He and China are not enemies in anything but show.
In fact, the export restrictions were put in place during the Biden admin, Trump had nothing to do with this
I mean these aren’t weapons…
But having such consolidated microchip supplies is fucking insane from a strategic point of view.
I mean, imagine having any sizable country not being able to secure a food, energy, ammunition supply… I mean middle countries.. France, Germany, Korea, etc… in times of war, you are done if you can’t make bullets… or microchips.
Everything ends up going through a fucking company from Netherlands and factories in Hong Kong and Korea?
Not just the US but some of these European countries too… insanity!
They aren't traditional weapons sure. But not calling them arms in some capacity feels at least some what disingenuous. The EU not building up their own production, their own home grown sources, or anything at all has always been absolutely wild to me.
It's not the only thing they completely miss the point on.