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US Blocks Intel From Selling Xeon Chips To Chinese Supercomputer Projects

Posted by Soulskill on from the demands-recall-of-intel-inside-stickers-too dept.

itwbennett writes: U.S. government agencies have stopped Intel from selling microprocessors for China's supercomputers, apparently reflecting concern about their use in nuclear tests. In February, four supercomputing institutions in China were placed on a U.S. government list that effectively bans them from receiving certain U.S. exports. The institutions were involved in building Tianhe-2 and Tianhe-1A, both of which have allegedly been used for 'nuclear explosive activities,' according to a notice (PDF) posted by the U.S. Department of Commerce. Intel has been selling its Xeon chips to Chinese supercomputers for years, so the ban represents a blow to its business.

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  1. Soon this will be impossible by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Someday soon, the US will be unable to bully people into this kind of bullshit. Soon enough, it will make more sense economically to say "Fuck US" and pull out. This can't happen soon enough.

    1. Re:Soon this will be impossible by halivar · · Score: 1, Insightful

      More and more of Slashdot is just astroturf white noise: AC's for whom Slashdot is not nerd discussion site, but a platform for paid anti-American histrionics. It was amusing at first; now it's tiresome.

  2. Yet more proof the legislators are clueless by JustNiz · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Its very depressing that the democratic process can fail badly enough to not only put but keep clearly incompetent judges and politicians in complete control of legislating on stuff like this that they clearly don't understand.

    There needs to be an active mechanism in government that weeds incompetence and ignorance out of the system.