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  1. Tom Womack

    The issue isn't "shipping Xeons to China", it's shipping anything to the four supercomputer centres (NUDT in Changsha, and NSC-Changsha, NSC-Guangzhou and NSC-Tianjin) that have been declared to be using their machines to work on atom bombs. It's not a full ban, you have to apply for an export licence and there's no guarantee that the licence will be refused, but the particular licence for building Tianhe-2a was refused. IBM are no more permitted to ship them Power chips than Intel is to ship them Xeons.

    1. Alan Brown Silver badge

      US export licenses

      Do those apply to something that's made in Malaysia and never sees US shores?

      Anyway, all it means is that the buyers for those projects will purchase them on the open market.

      1. imanidiot Silver badge

        Re: US export licenses

        Intel is a US based company and thus has to comply with US law or face some rather serious sanctions. No matter if the product never hits US soil. And even if they weren't US based, since the US itself is a very large client/source of income (in terms of lovely R&D money, DoD contracts, etc) they'd be hit pretty hard if they go against the wishes of the US government.

        1. DocJames

          Re: US export licenses

          As above; this is an example of the US throwing its weight around. It is unclear why the US government (representing the US people) gets to decide what computers the Chinese government is allowed, when the US is so keen on free and open markets...

  2. J.G.Harston Silver badge
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    Operationalising our strategy

    Bingo! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyV_UG60dD4

    1. Chika

      Re: Operationalising our strategy

      There's only one problem with this. It comes in the form of that age old saying - it takes one to know one.

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Re: Operationalising our strategy

        What are you supposed to do if the diagnosed asshole is above you in the food-chain?

        1. spiny norman

          Re: Operationalising our strategy

          For some odd reason, the people who make public comments like this always assume the problem is below them or around them. If they do own mirrors, they don't use them, or not for that anyway.

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