[georgeburdell]

I’d be interested to know more about what the Obama administration threatened in 2015 that caused such a dropoff in corporate hacking, when attacks have dramatically increased in the face of a full-on trade war.

The Micron story makes me think when the other shoe will drop for another company: AMD. They are (possibly, debatably) laundering X86 IP to China through a joint venture. I guess it’s hard to steal what’s being given away?

[greglindahl]

"IP" means a lot of things. A license to produce a chip is one thing, a mask for a particular design is another, and neither one will do much to help you design new x86 products. You can see some stuff in the mask, but it's looking at the chip through the wrong end of a telescope.

I don't know on what level AMD is cooperating with those folks, do you? And even if they did sell the top-level design details, that's not Intel's implementation.

[georgeburdell]

The US government has banned Intel/NVidia/AMD from selling compute units to China for the purposes of supercomputers. AMD must tread carefully cooperating in any way with them.

[scarejunba]

They can just use the Hygon Dhyana (the repackaged EPYC or whatever).