AMD does something that can really only be made to appease China. Lies and says it isn’t.
this post was submitted on 22 Jan 2024
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They are simply borrowing from the ccp handbook. Section 1: lie about everything regardless of how blatantly u are in the wrong
To be fair it makes it more consistent with their other chips now
Slightly misleading title:
The "Taiwan branding" it refers to was not "Made in", but a separate labeling of "Diffused in". This makes the title's reference questionably unnecessary information other than to spark controversy.
The article itself is much more fair, explaining AMD's stated reason AND why it could be considered believable and reasonable, and confirmed by inside sources.
That said, I still think it was totally to appease China
Guess they plan on selling to a Chinese company in the future...
That will be 100 % vetoed. Most nations have a veto right for selling of companies of strategic value, for example Germany has vetoed a lot of sales after the selling of Kuka hugely backfired.
Germany is world class in producing production facilities and Kuka has been one of the most successful companies. These robots you see assembling cars? There has been a time where they were almost all manufactured by Kuka – a german so called 'Mittelstand' company. From 2016 to 2021 Midea – a Chinese company bought Kuka and ultimately decided to make them privately owned again instead of publicly traded. Relatively shortly after this, all patents where transferred to China and a lot of European Companies decided to ditch Kuka due to their strategic dependency and fear of technology theft of China. Since then, the EU has decided to block a lot more sales of European companies of strategic importance to China – especially since its not an even playing field, due to European companies not being allowed to buy Chinese companies in the same way.
I am pretty sure some similar Veto will happen with AMD.
Now I get to consider team blue again…cool…
Oh you think Intel is somehow morally better? You poor fool.
Intel seems to have removed the "Made in" label from their CPUs entirely, at least based on the few newer chips I've seen
I'm sure it has nothing to do with Ireland's recent stance on One China Policy. (AMD has a huge presence in Ireland and is one of my previous clients.)