[joe_mamba]

>Well, there was the kerfuffle around PS3 (IIRC) and 'supercomputers'.

There were no export restrictions on the PS3.

[KingMob]

They were probably thinking of the PS2, which Japan did, in fact, temporarily restrict: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-apr-17-fi-20482...

[xentripetal]

They meant PS2. Japan was worried the processor was powerful enough to control missiles and put restrictions on how many can be sold to a single person and banned certain countries.

[DrBazza]

I probably did ;)

[ajdegol]

Double precision cell chips were reserved for military, I think (or maybe also blade processors). So doing any serious physics on them was dead in the water - same with macs tbh

[joe_mamba]

PS3 had not the same Cell chips as the sones for data centers.

[DrBazza]

I said kerfuffle. I didn’t say ‘export’.