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China’s blacklisted supercomputer organisations: who are they and what do they do?
The US added seven new supercomputing organisations to its Entity List, citing concerns that they were being used for weapons programmes
The groups are involved in China’s biggest supercomputer projects and include the location of Sunway TaihuLight, the country’s fastest supercomputer
The undying tech rivalry
between the world’s two largest economies is heating up in supercomputin
g with the addition of seven related Chinese entities
to a US trade blacklist on Thursday over alleged links to the Chinese military.
Supercomputers are an increasingly important strategic resource, and they have become a symbol of technological might. The US cited concerns about their use in weapons programmes as a reason for putting them on its Entity List, but they are also used for more benign purposes such as mapping human genome and weather forecasting. The machines are also now widely used in commercial applications, including massive data-crunching, energy exploration and even creating video games and artificial intelligence.
The seven organisations join five other Chinese entities related to supercomputin
g that the US blacklisted in June 2019: Sugon, the Wuxi Jiangnan Institute of Computin
g Technology, Higon, Chengdu Haiguang Integrated Circuit and Chengdu Haiguang Microelectronics Technology.
This time around, the US has targeted four of China’s seven national supercomputer centres (sparing the ones in Guangzhou, Changsha and Tianjin), along with Tianjin Phytium Information Technology, Shanghai High-Performance Integrated Circuit Design Center and Sunway Microelectronics.
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3128963/chinas-blacklisted-supercomputer-organisations-who-are-they-and-what