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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.
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Wednesday December 18 2019, @01:28AM (1 child)
Chinese routers? Chinese 5G doohickeys? Do you really think that, after "nearly a year of experience", we can trust these fine folks who just yesterday relied on a secretary to compose an MS Word memo, to figure out which tech is important?
My guess? The mouse will be considered ultra high tech that we should in no way, shape, or form let the Chinese have access to.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday December 18 2019, @03:13AM
And so? They'll have mini-rats instead (grin)
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Point: if a corporate wants to continue getting revenue from China, they'll find loopholes galore, including using technical jargon in their export application no govt bureaucrat can relate to a restricted tech)
Point: the reason China is catching up in space technology race? Trace it back to the Chinese exclusion policy of NASA [wikipedia.org]. Restricting a technology means nothing if the restricted entity can catch up on its own and you don't keep running the technology race at a speed at least as high as the follower.
Given the oh-so-anti-science political makeup of the US Congress, I don't see them creating the conditions for sustained pace in that race. The decade(s) long "teaching the controversy", the adversarial stance regarding Earth/climate sciences, the no-trust-in-science and/or "my ignorance is as good as your education", etc. doesn't help either - why would a youngster go into STEM if the jobs to work in are scarce, no respect/prestige... nay, even badly viewed by the rest and the student loans are astronomical.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford