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Well, I am glad it is Microslop patenting this. That means it will only ever be used in a handful of games noone evert plays before xbox goes completely belly up.

Just don’t watch it. Nobody is forcing you to watch it. But bragging about keeping yourself ignorant solely because you are too lazy to sit and consume media longer than tiktok videos is not a good look for you.

MSRP apparently means “manufacturers suggested retail price”, which is kind of a bizarre thing to expect readers to know.

But they are also lying. They are not going to let people fully opt out of the one feature which has literally been the foundation of their entire business model for a decade.

That is a picture of a juvenile rook though, which is unfortunate that the article uses as its flagship picture for the article, because it is quite misleading as to how adult rooks actually looks. It is obviously not fully developed yet.

The other pictures in the article does a better job, and does indeed resembles OPs picture more.

Non-AI datacenter hardware manufacturers looking at the AI-datacenter component price hikes: “Uhm… our components are also being affected by … uhm… whatever the rest of them are suffering from”.

They wont though. They will press on as usual, and hope Nvidias (and others) dreams of cloudbased subscription computers somehow becomes reality.

Having a monopoly makes you arrogant. That is probably the only reason why they do it.

No, we already know that most of the production will go to Chinese datacenters.

The mandate formalizes a policy trajectory already underway. Beijing introduced a requirement in August 2025 that data centers source at least 50% of chips locally.

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With the demand, that 50% requirement likely means almost all of the Chinese domestic production for quite some time. And the mandate will most likely rise to 100% as soon as Chinese domestic production can cover it.