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Apple made marketing gold from the export ban on Power Mac G4 'supercomputer' in 1999, 'for the first time in history a personal computer has been classified as a weapon' — Pentagon banned sales of the 400 MHz G4 in 50 countries when it launched

… Bill Clinton’s administration raised the gigaflop threshold for U.S. export controls in January 2000. Then, with the threshold raised to 6.5 GFLOPS, Apple could again begin unrestricted G4 exports. …

Jun 14, 2026 · Mark Tyson
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While the U.S. flip-flops on chip sanctions, China is building its own chip supply market — export controls are creating conditions for a Sino-Russian chip trade alliance

… "The PRC announced Made in China 2025 in 2015,” she points out. “That precedes export controls.” Her analysis of Chinese government documentation over that period shows China has maintained a state-directed strategic priority of breaking from U.S. and friend-shored technologies. “In other words,” s… …

Jul 9, 2026 · Sayem Ahmed