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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. I guess by DarkLox · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I guess an intel chip can be considered a weapon of some sort....

    .. If I chuck it at someones head hard enough.

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  2. Re:beowulf cluster by frodo+from+middle+ea · · Score: 0, Redundant
    It would be the only cluster in the world to slow down as you add nodes.

    I would say a beowulf cluster of PHPs would compete just well.

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