Give it enough money and the thousands of suitcases are going to organize themselves. Don’t underestimate how massive sneakernets can get, bulk of all baby formula consumed in China has been supplied like this, because nobody in China trusts to buy baby formula from local Chinese businessmen after the 2008 scandal.

Which customs, the Chinese customs? They certainly will not.

Yes, it is. But as you might imagine, an export ban on a consumer item is hardly watertight. Anyone can buy one and simply walk over the border. Who is there to stop that?

That’s fine. All other export controls leak too. Export control in the end is just an extra barrier you force a country to jump over and that extra cost causes them to be uncompeditive on global market. They will still be plenty compeditive on local market with their parallel imported consumer cards.

Well, isn’t it just the same chip as 13th gen, just from a different bin? Intel didn’t really update anything this time, same arch, same conf, same node, same all. And higher bin only makes sense if you actually drive it to it’s limits, so… the narrative isn’t half wrong.