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Valve Says The Companies Making RAM Give Them A Price And If They Say No, They ‘Never Talk To Us Again’ (kotaku.com)
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[–] 7 points 4 months ago (5 children)

And China also can't really invade because all the facilities that make the silicon are rigged to self destruct if China puts boots on their soil, at least last I heard.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Would be brilliant

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I mean, it would bring global tech to a standstill. It would be a significant problem. Once existing stuff broke, there would be no replacement. I know very little about chip manufacture, except that the lithography machines are fantastically complex and costly. It would probably take years to spin up new production.

    This seems like a pretty solid mutually assured destruction deterrent and doesn't even involve nukes.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    From what I can find, it looks like ASML has a software brick they can just drop into the update stream. As cool as physical disabling would be, a remote software trigger is simpler and leaves the machines in tact to spin back up after aggression ends

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    It's a lot of things. But complex tech can involve literally thousands of hardware engineers. Each with very specific skills.

    The proximity of these highly skilled workers to cheap chinese labour is another reason why this is difficult to replicate elsewhere.

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