Without the necessary technologies, China's supercomputers and data centers will not be able to operate. This will affect many industries, even those not related to the defense complex.
President Joe Biden's administration is considering expanding restrictions , which will concern the supply of semiconductors to the PRC. All the more so that earlier the United States already imposed sanctions against Chinese manufacturers. Thus, the US plans to limit China's access to advanced technologies as much as possible, The New York Times reports.
The new restrictions are expected to apply to exports of semiconductors and chips, even if they are manufactured in third countries. In this way, the United States seeks to prevent the PRC from gaining access to technologies that allow high-performance computing, the manufacture of weapons and the automation of large-scale surveillance systems.
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Ideas for a partial ban on the sale of microchips used in data centers and supercomputers are being discussed in Washington. This will cause significant damage not only to the military industry, but also to academic institutions and Internet companies such as Alibaba and Tencent. In addition, it will prevent China from developing powerful number processing technology, which is the basis of innovation in many fields, including life sciences, artificial intelligence and rocketry.
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The White House has so far refrained from commenting on this information. But if these measures are implemented, they will be the strongest blow of the United States to the Chinese technology market to date.
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Meanwhile, the United States has begun to increase the production of its own microprocessors and tighten export controls. semiconductors and technologies for gas turbine engines.
