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Sale of IBM's Chip-Making Business To GlobalFoundries To Get US Security Review
dcblogs writes IBM is an officially sanctioned trusted supplier to the U.S. Defense Dept., and the transfer of its semiconductor manufacturing to GlobalFoundries, a U.S.-based firm owned by investors in Abu Dhabi, will get U.S. scrutiny. Retired U.S. Army Brig. Gen. John Adams, who authored a report last year for an industry group about U.S. supply chain vulnerabilities and national security, said regulators will have to look closely. "I don't want cast aspersions unnecessarily on Abu Dubai — but they're not Canada," said Adams "I think that the news that we may be selling part of our supply chain for semiconductors to a foreign investor is actually bad news."
You mean Abu Dhabi? Dice, fire Timothy at once!
The united states is currently shitlisting, per ITAR, 27 of the following contries:
Afghanistan, Belarus, Central African Republic, Cuba, Cyprus, Eritrea, Fiji, Iran, Iraq, Cote d'Ivoire, Lebanon, Libya, North Korea, Syria, Vietnam, Myanmar, China, Haiti, Liberia, Rwanda, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Republic of the Sudan (Northern Sudan), Yemen, Zimbabwe, Venezuela, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
ITAR means military goods and services are categorically banned. whats hillarious about this is many of these countries have militant regimes or massive destabilization as a direct result of our foreign intervention so its almost as though ITAR is to us as a 1 year AA chip is to an alcoholic. Others are just boogeymen left over from the cold war, and paradoxically countries like China and Vietnam are already enormous trading partners that could, if they decided to, temporarily grind the US to a halt with a trade embargo. Surprisingly Syria and Iraq, despite being on ITAR, receive funding and training from the US military respectively. Bureaucrats are strange.
Ultimately we cant sustain this simultaneous ideological demonization and capitalist embrace of free trade because, as is evidenced by our arms conractors at least, the United states is governed by private industry. What we do is no different than a baptist minister preeching against gays, but hiring a male prostitute on the weekends.
This happened in 2006 as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Instead of exercising their right in america to free trade, DPW just chose to back away cautiously from the frothing psychosis that is american political and social policy.
Good people go to bed earlier.
Nonsense, the biggest fabs of the biggest semiconductor company in the world, making the most advanced microprocessors are located in the US at Oregon and Arizona sites. It's a little company called Intel.
DoD uses PowerPC-based chips in nearly every tank, aircraft, helicopter, satellite, and smart weapon in its inventory, all manufactured by IBM's fab through the trusted foundry program. It's actually a pretty big deal.