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>What abou Italy? Honduras? Liechtenstein? Nigeria? Should they all produce their own hardware for national security concerns? And why stop there? wrt computer
by nyolfen 8y ago
>What abou Italy? Honduras? Liechtenstein? Nigeria? Should they all produce their own hardware for national security concerns? And why stop there?
wrt computers, why not if they're capable and willing? it has increasingly obvious and critical security considerations. russia already has a fledgling domestic processor industry for these reasons:
https://thenextweb.com/insider/2017/05/25/russia-showcases-first-computers-based-indigenous-elbrus-8s-processor/ https://thenextweb.com/insider/2017/05/25/russia-showcases-f...
- sct202 8y agoRussia's processor industry is also still dependent on foreign fabs like TSMC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbrus-8S https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbrus-8S It seems like the main fabricators based in Russia are still working on getting below 90nm.
- vanviegen 8y agoSure, not many nations would be producing current-gen chips anytime soon. But in case the fan is hit, I imagine ~15 year old tech will make do just fine.