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> Does that make it a place for shady deals?

Where do you expect them to go then? It's the most logical place.

> Gambling is illegal in Taiwan

They aren't offering gambling services in Taiwan to Taiwanese people. Hence it's definitely a gray area.

> Citation needed

VIA technologies? Too old, link likely wiped, but you can look the history. VIA technologies went into a JV with China in 2013 called Zhaoxin. Before that they literally never touched the x86 for years. There was no way for China to otherwise acquire an x86 license (this was before ARM would be a thing).

For reference you can compare it to how AMD handled a similar JV [0] and see stark differences. AMD went to long lengths to protect their IP and then stopped once they no longer needed to.

If we have to keep going, HTC also eventually suffered a similar but different fate. Funny that both companies have something to do with a certain someone...

[0]: https://wccftech.com/no-amd-did-not-sell-keys-kingdom-how-th...



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