Loongson MIPS CPUs

Unless you live in China or are keeping classified information on your personal computer, the Chinese government can't do shit with any information they collect from you. Besides, China already botnetted every single piece of x86 and ARM hardware that was manufactured there, so it's not like there's anything to lose by cutting out the American and Israeli botnets.

WTF I LOVE CHINA NOW!

Chinese law is irrelevant if you don't live in China.

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This is all well and good until the rest of the world figures out how to exploit the Chinese botnets.

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Seems more likely than not. Even if the VHDL was open, the actual silicon may be different unless you can fab it yourself or implement it in TTL, both of which are unfeasible for something this modern.

Meanwhile, no one even has to figure out how to exploit American botnets and most people here are either from America or a country that America colonized (so all relevant countries on the planet except China, Russia and some of their allies). Thinking that using hardware made by the people that actually want to harm you is better than any other alternative is beyond retarded. Give me a North Korean CPU, I will trust that over Intel and AMD any day. I don't worry about Russia and China. I don't like them, but they don't give a shit about what I do or say, so it's easy to take advantage of them.

Very unlikely that it won't have anything bad in there. Practically impossible, in fact. But we know for a fact that America does this as well. The difference is that China can't harm you while America can, and the American government can't legally fuck with your computer so easily if it's Chinese. So there is an advantage there. Of course, you want to avoid the botnet entirely, but between Intel and China, I would say China is the lesser evil unless you actually live in China. In that case go with anything that isn't Chinese because the west can't do shit to you but your government can easily ruin your life or even hack you to pieces probably.

I suppose it may be plausible if you've got a couple cubic square miles of space and the ability to keep those millions of TTL chips at sub-zero temps, but that'd that wouldn't be in any way practical- even if it does sound like a great thing thematically for some cyberpunk novel. You'd have to figure out how to deal with the horrendous latency as well.

You'd be better off putting your money into research for making home chip fabbing practical and affordable anyway. I suppose 3D printers might be capable of that in a decade or two if first-world governments don't collapse in the meantime.

You must have missed every piece of malware, and every computer security breach that's happened in the last 50 years. Not to mention all the exploits western intelligence agencies keep bottled up have a tendency to be leaked and fall into the hands of every other malicious actor possible.

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