TOSBF - Korea IT H/W: Implications Of Additional U.S. Blacklisting Of China
Implications of US blacklisting of five Chinese supercomputer makers
Last Friday, the US blacklisted four Chinese supercomputer makers and one research institute. Similar to the Huawei ban, the move bars them from buying American software and components. The blacklisted companies are Sugon, Higon (Hygon), Chengdu Haiguang Integrated Circuit Design, Chengdu Haiguang Microelectronics Technology and Wuxi Jiangnan Institute of Computing Technology. Sugon is one of the top four server makers in China and a leader in high-performance computing. It has a 70% market share in the HPC market for China’s central and local governments. In 2016,