By Jeremy Hsu4 Aug 2015 13:00 GMTChina Tightens Control on Exports of Supercomputers, Drones

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China has begun puttingnew limits on the overseas sales of itsmost powerful supercomputers and drones. The move to limit some of the more advanced Chinese technologiesechoes U.S. restrictions on similartechnology exports.

Chinese companies seeking to export certain advanced supercomputers or drones will need to apply for export licenses, according to a 31 Julyannouncement byChina’s Ministry of Commerce and the General Administration of Customs. For supercomputers, that means anything more powerful than 8 teraflops (8 trillion floating-point operations per second), The Wall Street Journalreports. China currently has the world’s most powerful supercomputer, called Tianhe-2, at 33 petaflops (33 quadrillionfloating-point operations per second.)

The new Chinese rules likely represent an effort to play up China’s technology strengths, saidAndrei Chang, the Hong Kong-based editor of Kanwa Defense, an online publication about military affairs, in aWall Street Journal interview. But they may also represent a reaction to the U.S. government blacklisting several Chinese supercomputing centers associated with Tianhe-2 because of concerns about their involvement in nuclear weapons development.

Both China and the U.S. are leaders in building ever-faster supercomputers. But the U.S. currently lags behind China and Japan in terms of plans to buildthe first exascale supercomputers. The two Asian nations hope to get there by 2020. On 29 July, President Obama signed an executive order focused on high-performance computing that included the goal of speeding up delivery of the first U.S. exascale supercomputer, which experts don’t expect until 2023.

The new Chinese export license restrictions also cover homegrown drones that can fly for more than an hour, along with drones that can stabilize themselves in the midst ofstrong winds and fly for more than half an hour.That probably won’t affect the business oftheChinese company DJI, which produces the popular Phantom line of commercial drones andcurrently ranks as the world’s largest commercial drone manufacturer. But it could potentially limit future exports as off-the-shelf drones become more powerful.

中國(guó)加強(qiáng)控制無(wú)人機(jī)和超級(jí)計(jì)算機(jī)的出口

杰瑞米hsu4月2015日13:00 gmtchina收緊控制出口的超級(jí)計(jì)算機(jī)，drones

中國(guó)已經(jīng)開(kāi)始把對(duì)其海外銷售的新限制；最強(qiáng)大的超級(jí)計(jì)算機(jī)和無(wú)人機(jī)。此舉限制一些更先進(jìn)的中國(guó)技術(shù)；呼應(yīng)美國(guó)限制類似；技術(shù)出口。

中國(guó)企業(yè)尋求出口某些先進(jìn)的超級(jí)計(jì)算機(jī)或機(jī)器人將需要申請(qǐng)出口許可證，根據(jù)七月31 ；中國(guó)的公告；&rsquo；商務(wù)部和海關(guān)總署。超級(jí)計(jì)算機(jī)，這意味著超過(guò)8萬(wàn)億次浮點(diǎn)運(yùn)算更強(qiáng)大的東西（8兆次浮點(diǎn)運(yùn)算每秒），華爾街日?qǐng)?bào)報(bào)道。中國(guó)目前擁有世界上最強(qiáng)大的超級(jí)計(jì)算機(jī)，；叫天河2號(hào)，在33千萬(wàn)億次（33萬(wàn)億；浮點(diǎn)運(yùn)算每秒。）

中國(guó)新規(guī)則可能代表了一種努力發(fā)揮中國(guó)&rsquo；的技術(shù)優(yōu)勢(shì)，說(shuō)；安德列昌，基于香港漢和防務(wù)主編，軍事在線出版物，在；華爾街日?qǐng)?bào)采訪。但他們也可能代表了美國(guó)政府的黑名單幾個(gè)中國(guó)超級(jí)計(jì)算機(jī)中心與天河2號(hào)因?yàn)樗麄儼l(fā)展核武器的擔(dān)憂中參與反應(yīng)。

中國(guó)和美國(guó)的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人在建設(shè)更快的超級(jí)計(jì)算機(jī)。但美國(guó)目前落后于中國(guó)和日本方面計(jì)劃建立；第一億億級(jí)超級(jí)計(jì)算機(jī)。這兩家亞洲國(guó)家希望在那里得到2020。29七月，奧巴馬總統(tǒng)簽署了一項(xiàng)行政命令，專注于高性能計(jì)算，包括加快美國(guó)第一億億級(jí)超級(jí)計(jì)算機(jī)交付的目標(biāo)，專家不；沒(méi)想到直到2023。

中國(guó)新的出口許可證限制還包括國(guó)產(chǎn)飛機(jī)能飛一個(gè)多小時(shí)，隨著無(wú)人機(jī)能穩(wěn)定自己在中間；大風(fēng)飛了半個(gè)多小時(shí)，；這可能會(huì)影響；；企業(yè)；中國(guó)企業(yè)DJI，產(chǎn)生商業(yè)無(wú)人機(jī)的流行的幻影線；目前是世界上最大的商業(yè)飛機(jī)制造商。但它可能會(huì)限制未來(lái)的出口，因?yàn)楝F(xiàn)成的無(wú)人駕駛飛機(jī)變得更加強(qiáng)大。