U.S. Government Restricting Supercomputer Chip Exports To China

[ahhming]

Four technical centers in China that are associated with the Tianhe-2, the world’s most powerful supercomputer, were put on a list of restrictions by the U.S. government. According to the WSJ, the reason given is because these centers are acting “contrary to U.S. national security or foreign-policy interests”.
 

The Tianhe-2 and the Tianhe-1A are both "believed to be used in nuclear explosive activities," according to a notice posted by the U.S. Commerce Department on February 18. However, designers for the Tianhe-2 said that the supercomputer is used for scientific research such as genome research.

 The Tianhe-2 supercomputer uses mainstream server chips from Intel, so it’s hard to believe China couldn’t find another way to gets its hands on those chips, without having the four technical centers directly involved in acquiring those chips.
 
The real reason could be that China has also increased its restrictions and demands for U.S. companies lately. One of the more recent demands is requiring companies to allow access to their software source code in order for the Chinese government to verify it for backdoors. The demand also includes adding ways to monitor their users and handing the government the private keys to encryption. U.S. companies along with the White House have decried the new requirements as invasive.
 

Chinese companies already use architecture licenses for ARM or MIPS to build their own chips. Even if both ARM and Imagination were also banned by the UK government from licensing their architectures out to China, Chinese companies would still be able to keep the previous designs and continue to build on them.

Source:
 
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/supercomputer-chip-exports-restricted-china,28908.html#xtor=RSS-181

[GodSpoon]

Well Damn

[ChineseChef]

This is hardly anything new.  Advanced hard has always been restricted and encryption software and methods used to also be restricted.

[Misanthrope]

So yeah you can manufacture them for us.....but you can't keep it....Because Fuck you, that's why.

[Sidiox]

Well those other actions by China are stupid, but understandable, and this reaction of the US is stupid and also understandable.....

Just stop spying on eachother and trying to blow shit up, the world would be a better place.

 

(Also, isn't simulation nuclear explosions better than carrying them out for tests ) 

[DeViLzzz]

If it was one government for all and mankind was united working together to make the world a better place we could share everything and not have restrictions like this.  Oh well.

[cesrai]

Will this is something new.

[qwertywarrior]

do u think china gives an F if they got blocked by every Chip vendor

 did everyone forget about openSPARC they can do what Fujitsu did with it

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1137342/fujitsu-unveils-world-s-fastest-cpu

 

u also have shenWei

[szomeret]

The real question is if Nvidia/Intel will be able to sell them GPGPU/Xeon Phi. The CPU only make a small portion of the capability anyway. They could use any ARM/MIPS/SPARC core they want.

[imthewalrus]

If it was one government for all and mankind was united working together to make the world a better place we could share everything and not have restrictions like this. Oh well.

Nazi era Germany tried to do that, but their plan included killing everyone else and they did not succeed because America.

[DeViLzzz]

Nazi era Germany tried to do that, but their plan included killing everyone else and they did not succeed because America.

Don't compare what I want to do and what some others want to do to what Nazis did.  What they wanted to do was only have blonde haired, blue eyed people eventually left to rule the world and had other crazy ideas that I do not support.  Now would I kill to have one government, no commerce, tougher sentences on crime, etc.?  Yes I would.

[Albatross]

So now they can't have technology advancements because of fear mongering? How do we expect third world countries or the like to "evolve" if we keep restricting what could help them achieve it? Am I misunderstanding this article? :huh:

 

I just don't understand this world any more.

 

If it was one government for all and mankind was united working together to make the world a better place we could share everything and not have restrictions like this.  Oh well.

 

I would rather not have A One World Order, thank you, because realistically nothing good can come from it so it itself would be a horrible idea.

[Northstorm]

Nazi era Germany tried to do that, but their plan included killing everyone else and they did not succeed because America.

Oh you silly silly Americans and your illusions about who won the second world war

[FakezZ]

If it was one government for all and mankind was united working together to make the world a better place we could share everything and not have restrictions like this.  Oh well.

My ideas exactly man. This needs to happen for the sake of humanity

[Real_PhillBert]

Oh you silly silly Americans and your illusions about who won the second world war

Wait, you think Germany and Japan won WW2?

Please elaborate.

[kacper]

Wait, you think Germany and Japan won WW2?

Please elaborate.

Russia. 

Doesn't really matter who won, Poland as always was f*cked.

[Real_PhillBert]

Russia.

Doesn't really matter who won, Poland as always was f*cked.

Ahh, sorry I misunderstood your post.

Edit: not your post lol

[Deletive]

Well it's not like their government isn't mature enough to handle nukes in their arsenals  

[Northstorm]

Please elaborate.

 

Russia. 

Doesn't really matter who won, Poland as always was f*cked.

Indeed ruassia won the war.

Btw, kek reply Kacper.