> In fact they could go all the way to open source processors running their own code doing all the same things. Yes, it would delay them a few years to get the

> In fact they could go all the way to open source processors running their own code doing all the same things. Yes, it would delay them a few years to get there, but once there there would be little the US could do to stop it. well as long as you can't easily build private fab out there capable of building such processors, good luck with that. There are not that many fabs out there. Fpga's aren't any better, since most of them you can't even make work without large quantities of proprietary blobs.