

The title is shitty, as the article says
“Beijing won’t let military-grade Loongson kit cross the border to Russia, or any other nation.”
You can change it to “China reportedly bans export of Loongson chips to Germany” or "China reportedly bans export of Loongson chips to Nepal’, while its content and “applicability” remains the same.
I bought one of the first orange PIs: they have terrible support for hardware, notable for the wifi: it is shipped as blob only in content of Armbian. No upstream drivers. You cannot have wifi and some other OS (even updated Armbian) nor openwrt etc.