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Odd, it appears that germany has no issue manufacturing cars with components sourced from an enemy country. Why does germany have such fascination with all things russian? Is it because after ww2 a lot have been fathered by russian soldiers or a secret desire to mimic russia’s behaviour? Either way kudos to the US for doing what’s right, as usual.

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It is international division of labor. Silly thing, exUSSR become late into semiconductor market, so all sub-micron deals was under Asian manufacturers, but nobody want to work with older tech.

Rumors said, in 2000s, Russians made near all chips for quartz watches (yes, even for Japan).

I think, it is really possible, Covid so hard hit market, that some automotive deals moved to Russians also. They have not too much, but low power 100nm (bought from AMD Dresden) is worth something.

And yes, Russians have licensed internal manufacture of some Atmel AVR chips.

Just like the US has no issues using Russian oil or uranium.

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