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by stingraycharles 1973 days ago
I’d imagine that a Chinese sanction on ARM chips would cause quite some trouble for all the manufacturing of electronic devices that’s happening in China, and that’s even without considering the large consumer market that China is.
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Yep,

When Western Digital acquired HGST, the corporation was 'obliged' to hold off full integration for 2 years due to the requirements of the Chinese government:

https://www.theregister.com/2015/10/19/mofcom_says_yes_wd_hg...