US Blocks Intel From Selling Xeon Chips To Chinese Supercomputer Projects

Posted by Soulskill on Friday April 10, 2015 @05:43AM 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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Re:Hello? The 21st Century Calling by LWATCDR · 2015-04-10 05:48 · Score: 5, Funny

You mean like Lenovo?

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Re:Awesome job guys! by slykens · 2015-04-10 06:03 · Score: 5, Informative

If (yeah, I know) the Chinese are developing nuclear bombs, this will hold them up for maybe a couple of years.
China has been a declared nuclear weapons state since 1964.
They are doing what we are doing now - modeling how the weapons work because many of us agreed not to physically test them any more over twenty years ago.