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Laid-Off Intel Employees Should Sue the Federal Govt

Journal by takyon

China will unveil a 100 petaflop supercomputer next month after investing $500 million to develop domestic chips after US ban on Intel Xeon exports to China

US Supercomputer Chip ban delayed China's 100 petaFLOP computer by 8 months and contributed to Intel laying off 12,000 employees

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  • (Score: 2) by Yog-Yogguth on Saturday May 14 2016, @11:32PM

    by Yog-Yogguth (1862) Subscriber Badge on Saturday May 14 2016, @11:32PM (#346204) Journal

    Fun to think about even though it's never going to happen.

    If the laid off people did that and succeeded then it would open the floodgates for every civilian US (aero)space company to sue for all the lost revenue and incurred costs from 40 years of ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations [wikipedia.org]) and its unintended consequences against anything "dual use" (pretty much everything). That's a lot of money.

    Also every US computer-related company could sue the US government for all the Five Eyes madness.

    And it all really ought to make the US government think some more about how smart it really is to push for huge multinational agreements that enables companies to take governments to court over losses and so on, just about every large US company will sue the US government first if they have any sense at all XD

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