China and the U.S. are at it again. The U.S. government has refused to let Intel update China’s Tianhe-2, the world’s largest supercomputer.
China, in a series of upgrades this year, wants to upgrade the machine’s capacity to over 110 petaflops. To do this, China relies heavily on Intel being allowed to ship new Xeon chips.
Intel applied for a license to be able to export tens of thousands of chips. The Department of Commerce refused Intel, saying they were concerned about nuclear research being done with the machine, said Next Big Future.
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