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

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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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by driverless on Wednesday December 18 2019, @05:06AM

    by driverless (4770) on Wednesday December 18 2019, @05:06AM (#933603)

    No idea what point you're making there, but you do reference a critical, if incorrect, sentence:

    These include Gate-All-Around Field Effect transistors jointly developed by Samsung and IBM

    Exactly how the US thinks they're going to control the export of Japanese (Toshiba, who invented them) and Korean (Samsung) GAAFETs is an open question. There are others of course, like the National University of Singapore (Singapore) and National Cheng Kung University (Taiwan), all of which weren't the US the last time I checked.

    So yeah, uh, good luck with that one guys.

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