[alephnerd]

> ignites a new digital "cold war"

Already been going on for over a decade - export controls on dual use technology like Xeon processors already began being enforced back in the Obama admin.

> until the launch takes place

It's already launched. Some companies had access to Mythos for months.

> fuelling the hype

This is true. Commercially available models from a year ago are already good enough from an offensive security perspective. Their big issue was noise, but that could be managed.

[cestith]

I was in the industry when key lengths for SSL were different between US domestic and US products for export. That’s one reason so much Open Source cryptography software expertise built up in Europe so quickly.

[alephnerd]

Much of that muscle was already well built in Western Europe well before the SSL stuff because of KU Leuven, COSIC, and IMEC.

The issue is by the late 2000s to 2010s, most European organizations didn't take advantage of that base despite being US comparable in the 1970s-90s.