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by edwiecron 1025 days ago
The PowerStar was the i3. This happened this year and there is no mention of it in any articles I see.

The fear generated from this story adds a ton of power to things like the CHIPS Act. It benefits manufacturers, pushes a ton of narratives from China, US, Taiwan, Korea, Japan. Kind of a perfect story for so many different players.
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bArray 1025 days ago
> The PowerStar was the i3. This happened this year and there is no mention of it in any articles I see.

I found some articles on it [1] [2], but not any mentions in these recent articles.

Given this history, you can see why there might be some doubt about their ability to produce original products. If they were to for example steal the 5G architecture from another company, you can't be certain they would even report it in fears their stock prices would drop.

> The fear generated from this story adds a ton of power to things like the CHIPS Act.

It's difficult to say whether the fear is warranted or not. China have blatantly stolen IP for many years now without accountability, and have no plans to stop.

[1] https://videocardz.com/newz/chinese-new-powerstar-p3-desktop...

[2] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/chinese-powerstar-p3-01105...

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MikePlacid 1023 days ago
> If they were to for example steal the 5G architecture from another company

What about this article? It says Huawei has the largest 5g patent portfolio in the world: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-16/huawei-to...

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bArray 1023 days ago
It was just an example and as you suggest, probably not something they are interested in as Huawei was part of the 5G research. A better example might be amd64 acceleration architecture, or Nvidia's CUDA cores.

That said, these large companies are highly motivated to patent anything and everything the patent office will accept. It's a broken system anyway, but I can't suggest anything better.

The irony of Huawei or any Chinese manufacturer wanting to charge for use of patents is that they have grown by abusing the patents and trademarks of others. Apple for example lost the trademark fight over the use of 'iPhone', despite filing a trademark bid some 8 years prior [1].

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36200481

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