Kill Switch

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High-tech warfare |  Something Wrong With Our **** Chips Today; Kill switches are changing the conduct and politics of war. Economist, Apr 7, 2011.
http://www.economist.com/node/18527456?story_id=18527456&CFID=162760222&CFTOKEN=24550980

My comment: It was reported Apr 19 (two days ago) that China invested $300m in SMIC in exchange for 11.6% equity. From commercial viewpoint, it would be bad money after good. But China has not choice. Last summer China built the fastest supercomputer in the world with chips from Intel and Nvidia.  But national security does not allow use of foreign chips. Still, even if SMIC is up to job to make microprocessors (which I doubt), China does not have a DRAM maker.


----------------------------------Separately
(1) 大陆首艘航母可能命名为“施琅号.” VOA Chinese, Apr 21, 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/china/20110421-CHINESE-FIRST--120348424.html

(2) China's Cheap Solution For The Infantry. Strategy Page, Apr 21, 2011.
http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htarm/articles/20110421.aspx
(PF98 "Queen Bee" 120mm recoilless rifle)

Note: PF-98
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PF-98

(3) 黃宣弼, 遠見最新民調︰馬民調連三降 滿意度下滑至32.9%. Liberty Times, Apr 21, 2011.
http://www.libertytimes.com.tw/2011/new/apr/21/today-p1.htm

Note: The report cites
遠見雜誌民調中心
http://www.gvm.com.tw/gvsrc/index.asp
(New 「馬總統執政滿意度、民眾終極統獨觀」民調)

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