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Gate-All-Around Transistors and "Quantum Refrigerators" to be Targeted by U.S. Export Rules

posted by martyb on Tuesday December 17 2019, @11:43PM   
from the closing-the-gate dept.

takyon writes:

Gate-All-Around Transistors, Quantum Refrigerators To Be Targeted By U.S. Export Rules

The trade war between the United States and China took a sharp turn for the tech world earlier this year when the United States' Bureau of Industrial Security added Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei in its Entity List and required American companies to seek government approval before making sales to the company. This move followed concerns that sensitive technology that can be used against American national security interests will make its way into undesirable actors' hands, as per the current administration.

Now, after nearly a year of experience with the list, American authorities are well on their way to classify which exports can be harmful to the country, reports Reuters. The United States Department of Commerce is drafting up five new rules that will limit a specific set of technologies for export. These include Gate-All-Around Field Effect transistors jointly developed by Samsung and IBM, and quantum dilated refrigerators.

Gate-all-around field-effect transistors are expected to be used at the "3nm" node.

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• Fuck you, China Fuck you, China (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 17 2019, @11:50PM (3 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 17 2019, @11:50PM (#933483)

  You'll have to find some other way to keep your quantum chip suey cold.

• Re:Fuck you, China (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Tuesday December 17 2019, @11:58PM

  by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Tuesday December 17 2019, @11:58PM (#933490) Homepage

  If I recall correctly, one of the lost Air Malaysia flights had a lot of Transmeta people on it, people who were working on quantum stuff. Pretty convenient how they would just disappear. Boeing aircraft, perhaps with a backdoor that others learned how to exploit externally to divert somewhere else. Just like on 9/11.

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• The law of unintended conseqeunces: FY America The law of unintended conseqeunces: FY America (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday December 18 2019, @12:41AM (1 child)

  by c0lo (156) on Wednesday December 18 2019, @12:41AM (#933500) Journal

  From the FA [reuters.com] ('tis the original)

  In a move that should appeal to U.S. firms, the rules will be submitted to international bodies for approval so that they may be implemented overseas, not just by the United States. That would establish a level playing field for U.S. companies abroad, but would also take much longer to review and go into effect, likely until mid-2021 at the earliest.

  Translation: for at least one and a half years, only the American companies will be denied the revenue from selling hitech (and high price) products on China's market.
  It's not impossible to end in the situation of "no international agreement could be reached ever" - I feel that China will put good "arguments" on the negotiation table. Even UK may discover a too large dependency on China after Brexit - I don't think the middle class Brexiter gives a fuck about quantum computing but it will be sensitive enough to "no more cheap T-shirts and smartphones for you. Pay up, bitch!"

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  • Re:The law of unintended conseqeunces: FY America (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 18 2019, @08:38AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 18 2019, @08:38AM (#933662)

    '..Even UK may discover a too large dependency on China after Brexit'

    After Brexit?, I invite you to use the search engine of your choice and investigate the current extent of Chinese 'involvement' here, no doubt it'll be a lot more after the UK leaves the fourth reich.

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