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Re:China Tops U.S. in Supercomputers by mrb on Monday June 20, 2016 @06:33PM (#11942136)
So let me get this straight:

1. Intel loses this business.

2. US employees lose their job.

3. China acquires skills designing the system themselves.

4. And they get to have their supercomputer after all.

How can anyone not see how stupid these export restrictions are?

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Re:China Tops U.S. in Supercomputers by angry_octet on Monday June 20, 2016 @06:51PM (#11942239)
More like: 1. China creates much slower CPU which they will be able to sell to absolutely no-one.

2. Augments slow CPU with impossible to programming Xeon Phi.

3. Spends significant effort achieving heroic linpack benchmark.

4. Researchers are unable to obtain real world fast compute.

5. Chinese programs for stealth, submarines, nuclear are significantly delayed. Expertise diverted into useless PR project.

6. PR backlash as US goaded to reinvest in next generation supercomputing, GPUs, etc.

Mission accomplished.

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