Deciding who gets hurt by sweeping new U.S. curbs on selling technology to China will come down in part to what constitutes a 'supercomputer,' experts told Reuters.
Semiconductor chips are seen on a circuit board of a computer in this illustration picture taken February 25, 2022. REUTERS/Florence Lo/Illustration/Files
The new American rules define supercomputers broadly in terms of computing power in a defined space: a machine with 100 petaflops - the ability to carry out 100 trillion operations per second - in 41,600 cubic feet, with some other caveats. or TikTok-owner ByteDance might soon reach supercomputer status based on the new definition, even if that is not what U.S. regulators intended.
Jack Dongarra, a professor of computer science who helps lead a group called TOP500 that ranks the world's fastest supercomputers, said he disagreed with the static definition.Major Chinese companies with big data centers such as Baidu, Alibaba and ByteDance did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Tencent declined to comment.
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