Just curious are we not going to be able to take our iPhone or Laptops into China when we visit?
Wondering when we are going to hit the point where our basic every day devices face export controls.
Wondering when we are going to hit the point where our basic every day devices face export controls.
Probably never
There was a time when companies and research labs bought Sony PS2 (and the PS3) to build supercomputer clusters. Japan placed export controls on the PS2 because they had militarily-useful computing power. According to DIA report 4,000 PS2 units had been purchased in the United States and shipped to Iraq in just 2-3 months during 2000.
I can't imagine what general purpose software they'd have wanted to run on a PlayStation 2 from 2000 that they couldn't run on a general purpose laptop in 2004.
But these days, consoles aren't sold below cost, and gigabit network isn't fast enough to make cluster computing make sense
A 64 bit MIPS processor that can run linux + networking for 299$.
I know is not exactly the same but how much was a SGI workstation 20k? 40k? 80k?
If the PS5 had a Nvidia A100 the comparasion would make sense and people would be buying them to create clusters, like they did with the PS2 and 3.
Maybe standard ARM cores are still approved for export to the mainland.