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Given current sanctions which blocked even supposedly Russian made CPUs - which actually were made in Taiwan - the has country declared the goal of "technological sovereignty(independence)", basically back to USSR, and in several years we can expect more of similarly older tech chips from Russia which will be of archaeological interest like those USSR chips in that and other similar posts/articles.



basically back to USSR

So, mostly unlicensed copies of Western designs.


They've made a law recently fully legalizing gray import, i.e. basically denying IP protection to the companies from the "unfriendly countries" - very similar to the USSR times when it was de-facto so.


Indeed...back to the 'good old days'.

I'm reminded of the old saying (paraphrased) "there is an in group which laws protect but do not constrain, and an out group which laws constrain but do not protect".

You may find this amusing: https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/russians.html




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