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[–] atrielienz 16 points 3 months ago (4 children)

This is especially interesting in the wake of the Chinese Government's new ban on AMD and Intel chips in government computers.

https://lemmy.kde.social/comment/3150960

[–] MooseTheDog 6 points 3 months ago

Ban so they have justification for confiscation. It's not a real 'ban'. Like how russian missiles 'aren't' made with western components but actually are.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Well, you have to dogfood it sometime...

[–] Korkki 2 points 3 months ago

Well the requirements for government IT stack is really more about security and reliability than performance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They just banned them and Nvidia for medium sized businesses, too.

[–] atrielienz 2 points 3 months ago

That's very important context that I wasn't aware of. Makes the other comment about it being used as an avenue to search/seize that hardware much more believable.