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Guangzhou Supercomputer Center Added to US Technology “Denial List”

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Re: Guangzhou Supercomputer Center Added to US Technology “Denial List”

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Can we get a title change? It's misleading. > ... Uncle Sam has put this supercomputer centre, together with National University of Defense Technology in Changsha, the system’s creators, and Tianjin centre, among others, on so a so-called “Denial List”, which prevents any high technology from the USA to be sold to these sites. If I understand correctly Intel can't sell them any tech nor can anyone else in the US.

Looks like its already been changed.

Re: Guangzhou Supercomputer Center Added to US Technology “Denial List”

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post #9

Can we get a title change? It's misleading. > ... Uncle Sam has put this supercomputer centre, together with National University of Defense Technology in Changsha, the system’s creators, and Tianjin centre, among others, on so a so-called “Denial List”, which prevents any high technology from the USA to be sold to these sites. If I understand correctly Intel can't sell them any tech nor can anyone else in the US.

Thanks, we updated the title to something that's hopefully more accurate. We're open to suggestions for a better one.

Re: Guangzhou Supercomputer Center Added to US Technology “Denial List”

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I bet there's some secret info that we don't get to know that would make this bizarre move make more sense. Maybe China is using this computer to crack military servers or something.

I'm not willing to give the government the benefit of the doubt anymore. I can't recall any instance historically where they have turned out to have been right based on some secret information, even though they often intimate that they have some.

Re: Guangzhou Supercomputer Center Added to US Technology “Denial List”

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I bet there's some secret info that we don't get to know that would make this bizarre move make more sense. Maybe China is using this computer to crack military servers or something.

I bet the Chinese government is on Alibaba right now buying $1 billion worth of counterfeit Xeon chips.

Re: Guangzhou Supercomputer Center Added to US Technology “Denial List”

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post #6

Is the US slowly bowing out of the international tech scene? China is still going to get their processors from somewhere, the difference is if they don't get them from US companies then no money gets added to the US economy when they do buy their chips. This type of government interference doesn't hurt Chinese businesses at all, but could damage or destroy US-based businesses that may depend on foreign customers to s…

It is perhaps naive to assume that any given part can be had with identical properties and costs from American or non-American suppliers.

Also, there are other considerations at hand, such as making life harder for foreign intelligence agencies.

Re: Guangzhou Supercomputer Center Added to US Technology “Denial List”

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I bet there's some secret info that we don't get to know that would make this bizarre move make more sense. Maybe China is using this computer to crack military servers or something.

I'm not willing to give the government the benefit of the doubt anymore. I can't recall any instance historically where they have turned out to have been right based on some secret information, even though they often intimate that they have some.

It happens quite a lot. The catch is that the whole thing end-to-end is secret, with the result being that you don't hear about it at all.

All we really hear about on the outside is the screwups. The successes are silent.

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