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.
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Sunday 12th April 2015 22:08 GMT imanidiot
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.
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