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Does A Pentium 4 Need A Weapons License?

Posted by timothy on from the it-can't-even-carry-a-gun dept.

WindBourne writes "It appears to be that the U.S. house of Reps. want to classify Pentium 4 and above CPUs as weapons. This would mean that all these will require export licenses. Apparently, they have not heard about that the far east has developed large CPUs as well that are used in beowulf clusters." According to the article, this clause is unlikely to appear in the final version -- but stranger things have happened.

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  1. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp for the gnaa.

    1. Re:fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      you find that amusing about my fp? excellent.

    2. Re:fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Great idea! It's supply and demand, we get so many chips that the price falls. We'll all have supercomputers! With all that horsepower we'll almost be able to run doom 3 on longhorn!

  2. FP by mt2mb4me · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i have gotten it, but probably not now