Apple once faced a US export control on its 'supercomputer.' Steve Jobs turned it into a marketing moment.

In 1999, Apple's Power Mac G4 exceeded the allowed computing threshold for US exports to some countries. Steve Jobs leaned ...
Tom's Hardware on MSN

Apple made marketing gold from the Power Mac G4 'supercomputer' export ban in 1999

The new G4 was capable of ‘over 1 billion calculations per second’ and was three times as fast as Intel’s Pentium III, it was ...

As Anthropic's AI models face 'export ban', here's when an Apple Computer was classified as a weapon by the US government; and what Steve Jobs did

History repeats as Apple's Power Mac G4 faced export bans for its speed, spun into a marketing triumph. Now, AI firm ...
The Washington Post

Trump threatens 100% tariffs on computer chips for companies that don’t build in U.S.

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he would place a 100 percent tariff on all computer chips imported to the United States, but exempt companies that commit to “building” on U.S. soil. The ...