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I wonder how AMD and Intel's announcement that they will stop chip shipments to Russia indefinitely will affect this. I don't know how big of a consumer Russia
by VWWHFSfQ 5y ago
I wonder how AMD and Intel's announcement that they will stop chip shipments to Russia indefinitely will affect this. I don't know how big of a consumer Russia was but I imagine it could have some impact with all that stock now back on the market.
- cyberpunk 5y agoTheir economy is smaller than Italy. Some datacentres and such, but meh, those aren't buying bare chips from intel anyway. They're usually buying complete servers manufactured in other countries anyway. I'd be surprised if it even made a half percent dent.
- eunos 5y agoRussian can and will import those chips from somewhere else
- VWWHFSfQ 5y agoWhere else? People always seem to say flippant things like this as if it's really as easy as just "oh they'll get them from somewhere else then". Maybe it really is that easy. I don't know. But Yandex isn't buying computers off Newegg anymore. That's for sure.
- adam_arthur 5y agoChina, for one. What's to stop them from buying AMD and reselling to Russia? Though it will still increase cost to Russia with another middle man involved.
- pdpi 5y agoThat is not without costs, in terms of both time and money. And I'm sure Russia doesn't particularly want to increase its dependency on China either.
- Finnucane 5y agoThey do want that. It’s part of their backup plan for being cut off from the West. That’s why Putin made a big show of meeting with Xi just before the invasion.
- selimthegrim 5y agoNot as a supplicant though.