tl;dr: Intel and AMD are not selling their processors to Russia, and processors from Russian companies cannot be manufactured as Taiwan is banning TSMC from doing so, while Russia can only produce chips up to a 90 nm process.

  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    First, Russia is able to produce their own domestic chips, second Russia can import chips from CSMC which is in China and doesn’t care about US sanctions one bit. What I’m reading here is that Chinese foundries just got a big new market opened up to them without any competition.

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      2 years ago

      The article mentioned Russia’s domestic production. It said their domestic factories can only produce 90nm chips, which is believable.

      As far as the latter part of what you said is concerned, that was my same takeaway. China proper is the second most advanced manufacturer of transistors and has good trade relations with Russia; to the extent that their earlier declaration of friendship read more like a marriage declaration. These western sanctions only amount to Chinese protectionism. Its a huge boon to Chinese and Russian technological development and cooperation.

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      2 years ago

      Lol, you’re right. This news is terribly irrelevant for an article published last week. Why even write it? Western nations have been suffering from a chip shortage for over a year and are rushing to establish domestic production. This feels like more displacement. Taiwan is the most advanced manufacturer of transistors, but China proper is the second most advanced manufacturer; considering Taiwan is recognized as a province of China and the separatist lost the recent elections, the west is in serious trouble rather than Russia. Russia never de-industrialized, and the core of Russia’s industrial base is under central control; while the US has de-industrialized, and it’s only means of central control is bribing it’s capitalist base, which is more interested in banking fraud than production.

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    2 years ago

    Is this related to China also limiting cpus to Russia? I read something about that earlier this week.

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      2 years ago

      China isn’t limiting CPU sales to Russia. The article that’s been going around talks about China restricting foreign sales of a particular type of chip, and that has nothing to do with Russia.

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        2 years ago

        thank you for the info. The article I said highlighted it as a potential point of conflict with Russia but I’m not deeply into that subject so I don’t really know.

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      2 years ago

      China isn’t sanctioning Russia in any way; moreover, at the start of the war Chinese companies stepped in to alleviate some of the worst setbacks of Western sanctions. I think it’s fair to say that Russia would be in a far less favorable position without the support China has shown. I wouldn’t expect that situation to change any time soon. There’s always an innuendo of some brewing conflict between the two, but it’s just wishful thinking on the part of the authors.