Next you’ll tell me the sky is blue.

Lynx

I’m glad I don’t use that piece of shit.

Firefox or nothing.

Kwrite

I mean programming language package managers are just begging to be used as an attack vector. This is why package management should be an OS responsibility across the board and only trusted package sources and publishers should ever be allowed.

Intel is the only US based and owned foundry that is on the leading edge of fab process technology. That’s what the government wants domestically. Defense isn’t just military and certain intelligence and similar functions need high performance hardware. I somehow don’t think the NSA is using CPUs made on Northrop Grumman’s 180 nm planar CMOS process. Army radios might use that shit but the highest tech defense and intelligence agencies are using modern hardware. Intel is the best option for manufacturing it.

TSMC could be an option now with its US based GIGAFABs but it would be a much more complex deal with the US government where chips made for it would have to be made entirely in the US and possibly by a US domiciled subsidiary instead of TSMC’s main Taiwan based parent company. The same goes for Samsung.

Intel is too big to fail. And the defense sector needs an advanced domestic foundry. Uncle Sam will bail it out with our tax money.

What an absolute masterstroke for a software company.

Has Microsoft never heard of testing and QA?

When Think Different turns into differently stupid.

This isn’t even targeting pirates it’s targeting legitimate users. If anything, this will create more pirates.

All things that can be prevented in the future if you start today.

Advanced how? It doesn’t offer the most advanced process node fabricated in the USA that’s for sure.

GlobalFoundries is American in name only. It’s owned by the Saudis.

Korea and Taiwan are already ahead of the US in semiconductor fabrication so IDK what you’re talking about. The US also isn’t competitive on cost of production either. The only reason for anyone to build a fab here is for geopolitical reasons and because the government is giving away billions in tax dollars to subsidize it.

This is just both of them trying to cope with falling behind TSMC permanently.