[As a tie-in to recent previous post: @10Euo6GF ]
Winners
Chinese companies: Notably Huawei benefits because it can now build 5G infrastructure, network
switches, and IoT components using Power architecture. And, potentially, smartphone and tablet
processors – with considerable additional investment (likely in the billions) to manage clock speed,
energy consumption, and thermal management. But to say that this could solve Huawei's main 5G
component supply chain problem is a huge understatement.
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Russia and all the US's enemies: With open-source supercomputing technology like Power, any country
that presents a national security risk to the US potentially now has access to the kind of microprocessor
tech that powers the most important systems at the Department of Defense and the NSA. They only
need companies like Huawei and others with fab capability willing to sell it to them.
Isn't aiding and abetting the enemy tantamount to treason?
https://www.zdnet.com/article/ibms-power-ful-open-source-gift-big-winner-is-china-losers-include-you-know-who/