- Inspection units between 80 entities included in the export prohibition list.
- 50 units based in China, rest are found in Pakistan, Eau, Taiwan, etc.
- Beijing firmly opposes politicization, the weasponization of technology.
Washington: United States has added six Subsidiaries of INSPUR Group, the leading supplier of cloud computing services and Big Data of China, and dozens of other Chinese entities to its list of export restrictions, some of which are also based on Pakistan.
The INSPUR units were listed to contribute to the development of supercomputers for the Chinese army, said the Department of Commerce in a publication. Five of the subsidiaries are based in China and one in Taiwan. Inspur Group himself was placed on the list in 2023.
The INSPUR units are among 80 companies and institutes added to the export control list on Tuesday. More than 50 are in China, while others are in Taiwan, Iran, Pakistan, South Africa and the United Arab Emirates.
The listings are destined to restrict China’s ability to develop high performance computer capabilities, quantum and advanced technologies, and prevent the development of Beijing from their hypersonic weapons program.
“We will not allow adversaries to exploit US technology to reinforce their own military and threaten American life,” said Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick.
Meanwhile, the Chinese embassy in Washington said on Tuesday that “it firmly opposes these acts taken by the United States and demands that you immediately use issues related to the army as pretexts to politicize, instrumentalize and arm the commercial and technological problems.”
It should be noted that the United States adds companies to the list of entities of the Department of Commerce for National Security or Foreign Policy concerns that cannot later sell goods to those that appear without requesting and obtaining licenses, which are probably denied.
The trade official Jeffrey Kessler said that the administration aims to prevent “the technologies and goods of the United States being misused for high performance computer science, hypersonic missiles, training of military airplanes and UAVS [drones] that threaten our national security. “
The INSPUR group did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
Nvidia declined to comment, and AMD did not respond immediately to a request for comments.
Chinese companies Nettrix Information Industry CO, Sum Technology CO and Sum-Use Electronics, are among the other companies added to the list.
The United States said they were added to help develop Chinese exascale supercomputers, which can process large amounts of data at very high speeds and perform large -scale simulations.
Companies have also provided manufacturing capabilities to SUGON, also known as Dawning Information Industry CO, a computer manufacturer added to the entity list in 2019 to build supercomputers used by the military, said the Department of Commerce.
Companies could not be immediately contacted to comment.
Other companies were added to the list to acquire articles of American origin to advance in China’s quantum technology capabilities, and to sell products to companies that supply other listed parts, including Huawei, the technological conglomerate seen as in the center of the ambitions of China.
