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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 17 2019, @11:45PM (5 children)
WTF? Will it keep my quantum dilated beer cold?
(Score: 0, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Tuesday December 17 2019, @11:53PM (1 child)
ITAR security theater with respect to China is pretty goddamn stupid. They will publicly stall technology transfer to China and when they approve it, they might cripple it, but those same dipshits are the ones letting visa-Chinks into our labs and allowing "naturalized" Chink citizens security clearances and access to our most prized technologies simply because those Chinks had official cover from the mainland with respect to their background investigations when becoming naturalized in the USA.
Jewish politicians in American government are working with the Chinks to sell us out! Somebody stop them both!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 18 2019, @12:05AM
Go look at history of the past 40-50 years and you will see this is actually true. Israel has been facilitating technology transfers between sensitive US, Russian, Chinese, and probably also European nations for at least that long, usually in flagrant violation of their purchasing agreements, and yet somehow no punitive action has been taken against them as far as access to restricted technology goes.
At the same time, China's misbehavior has been obvious since Nixon's era and our politicians tacit endorement of it is the largest proof that global economics trumps nationalism, even among Trumps and 'nationalists'.
(Score: 2) by Coward, Anonymous on Wednesday December 18 2019, @12:36AM (2 children)
They probably mean dilution refrigerators [wikipedia.org], which are the coldest bulk-refrigeration systems available, and used extensively in quantum computing research. Western makers like Oxford Instruments (UK) and Janis (US) dominate the market.
The Chinese are good at building stuff. Dilution fridge technology will not be beyond them, and Western makers will not be happy when half-price Chinese units start showing up on the market.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday December 18 2019, @12:46AM
Alternatively, they could pursue room temperature quantum computing.
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(Score: 2) by Hartree on Wednesday December 18 2019, @01:02AM
They likely conflated dilution refrigeration and quantum cooling and then had a spell check fail to come up with quantum dilation refrigerator.
They use dilution (but still with quantum thrown in) later in the article.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 17 2019, @11:50PM (3 children)
You'll have to find some other way to keep your quantum chip suey cold.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Tuesday December 17 2019, @11:58PM
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.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday December 18 2019, @12:41AM (1 child)
From the FA [reuters.com] ('tis the original)
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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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 18 2019, @08:38AM
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.
(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.
Of course I'm against DEI. Donald, Eric, and Ivanka.
(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.
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(Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Wednesday December 18 2019, @01:41AM (1 child)
"These include Gate-All-Around Field Effect transistors jointly developed by Samsung and IBM, and quantum dilated refrigerators." And on the bottom they say "made in China".
China isn't afraid of any export restrictions. They are only afraid the Brawndo chugging cows that fill the USA won't buy as many of their precious cell phones.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by driverless on Wednesday December 18 2019, @05:06AM
No idea what point you're making there, but you do reference a critical, if incorrect, sentence:
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.
(Score: 2) by Coward, Anonymous on Wednesday December 18 2019, @06:19AM (1 child)
Many of the experts who work on dilution refrigerators and these new transistors will be ethnically Chinese. Will the US also limit their speech and movement? The country is not so many steps away from building new internment camps.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 18 2019, @02:56PM
They might even be official citizens of China. So after they publish some papers here or various organizations make enough press releases, they'll go back to China and actually build the stuff.
See also: https://venturebeat.com/2019/06/18/magic-leap-accuses-nreal-founder-of-stealing-ar-glasses-tech-for-china/ [venturebeat.com]