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The USA... too big for their boots?

15 May 2025

There is a saying "too big for their boots" which has fallen out of common usage in recent times but this seems to be the perfect time to resurect it.

I'm talking about an edict from the US government in respect to Chinese chipmaker Huawei and its customers -- wherever they may be in the world.

Huawei is a huge chip-maker who has been very busy trying to fill the gap created by US restrictions on the export of some processors, such as those used in AI systems and apparently they're doing pretty well at coming up with alternatives for the Sino market.

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Damn, why is it so hard to keep any reliable forum capability going these days?

I'll be working to get the forums up again but it seems that it might not be a simple task. The hosting company has obviously changed something but now it's up to me to try and get PHPBB working with their new configuration :-/

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