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Does that also not imply that the this "freedom" to clone would start coming under increasing pressure from IP owners?

Till now, chip companies were too busy upgrading and innovating their products - as long as that was profitable (cause clones were always a few steps behind), they weren't too intent on IP action. But with the clones catching up, maybe we will see increasing RIAA-style actions? No more easy imports of clones from aliexpress, etc?



We already went through that scare and got the Semiconductor Chip Protection Act of 1984 to supplement what was already protected by patents.




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