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There are countries that don't care about US IP laws. China comes to mind.

• 2000UltraDeluxe 5y ago
  And, with the current crisis in mind, Russia. They'll be looking to expanding their local semiconductor production from now on.
  • leereeves 5y ago
    Having chip designs without a state of the art fab won't help them any more than having software without a computer would. For China and Russia to replace TSMC they'd need TSMC's (and ASML's) secrets, as well as nVidia's.
    • fire 5y ago
      That's if we're assuming they want to directly reproduce existing hardware - I imagine they'd actually leverage it as something their engineers can learn from for future advancement
  • mapcars 5y ago
    I can tell you Russia is so far behind in technology they won't be able to do anything with this knowledge.