[NoLibZone]

[Steely Tom]

Remember all the fearful talk earlier this year about how Russia was working with China and some middle-east countries to come up with a reserve currency to replace the dollar?

Haven’t heard anything more about that one.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

It's the same as with Chinese food. With Longson, you run the
program, and a half hour later you feel like running it again.

[11th_VA]

RM *.* -r

[fireman15]

Longsoon is about three years maybe a little more behind Intel's top rung processors. But Linux takes far less processing power and overhead than Windows. In other words it does not matter. This is one more way that “sanctions”, “black listing” and other actions have caused the Russians, Chinese, and other BRICS countries to pursue more independence from the West.

How much of a hardship is it for them to use processors that are slightly behind the best available? Outside of gaming... probably none at all. It used to be that Russian diplomats stole pencils from Western diplomats because their pencils were inferior. But unless the Russian diplomats are into playing “The Assassin's Creed” or other processor intensive games who is actually going to care?

[zeestephen]

Good news to hear that China and Russia are developing their own Operating Systems and Chips.

Now, we can hack into Chinese and Russian technology without compromising European and USA technology.

[PIF]

Russia is moving towards greater technological independence from Western technologies and diversifying its use of processor technology. On the other hand, it introduces a dependency on Chinese technology.

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One more step in Russia becoming a vassal state of China.