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points by hypercube33 4 days ago | 0 comments
OK, what's stopping someone in a country that can both make the hardware chips and devices and use an LLM and just reverse engineer the chips and not do it publicly? FTDI had this happen with their USB to Serial chips did it not - before AI even was even usable. DisplayLink has been around for a long time; I'd almost wonder when the patents are due to expire (from some searching maybe 2028?) and all bets are off, China manufacturing will just clone it anyway from the patent.
[–] nom 3 days ago
nothing directly prevents you from doing that, but synaptic can block the import of products containing cloned parts and software which reduces the market to countries who don't have treaties with the US around respecting their patents/copyright/..
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