US adds 7 Chinese supercomputing firms on Entity List By IANS | 4 Views
Twitter acts on Huawei executive accounts promoting 5G (Photo by Attila Volgyi/Xinhua/IANS). Image Source: IANS News San Francisco, April 9 : After Huawei, ZTE and a host of Chinese companies, the US Commerce Department has now added seven supercomputing firms to its Entity List for allegedly supporting China's military efforts. The move is aimed at restricting the development of Chinese technology towards building weapons of mass destruction. The new entities include the Shanghai High-Performance Integrated Circuit Design Center, Sunway Microelectronics, and the Tianjin Phytium Information Technology, the US Commerce Department said in a statement on Thursday.