Following Huawei, the US Commerce Department last week announced the inclusion of four Chinese companies and a Chinese research institute "blacklist", the so-called list of entities, including the Bureau of dawn, Tianjin sea of light, Chengdu-optical integrated circuits, micro-Chengdu-light electronic technology, Wuxi Jiangnan Institute of computing technology, which five are domestic high-performance computing industry, the United States will further suppress the Chinese technology industry.
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Above five units, sea-light system more compelling, because AMD's 2016 announced and sea-invested companies reached an X86 license, authorization was the most advanced Zen architecture to the Chinese company, after the establishment of the Chengdu-optical integrated circuits, Chengdu sea-multiple market segments microelectronics two joint venture companies, domestic X86 processors on the market this year, and covers the 4-core to 32-core, including desktops, servers, and so on.
After the US sanctions, the development prospects of Sea Ray unknown, AMD aspects recently issued a statement saying "AMD will comply with the specifications of the list of entities, as AMD has been subject to US laws as currently AMD is reviewing a list of specific details in order to make sure that we and Next steps China sea Micron's joint venture. "
US sanctions will obviously affect AMD's cooperation with domestic companies, but two effects of sanctions on AMD will not be great, but the impact on Intel may be more serious. Mitch Steves RBC analyst at Royal Bank of Canada recently released a report that US pressure Huawei, the dawn of high-performance computing and other Chinese companies, the impact of Intel's much larger than the impact on AMD.
His argument is that AMD will launch EPYC 2-generation processor this year, which is 64-core 128 processor threads of Rome, mainly for high-end market, and the dawn does not matter much.
But Intel is different, they occupy in the low-end server chip market leading position, accounting for 95% of the servers in the server processor market share, while Huawei, the dawn of the company contributed 10 percent of Intel's server chip, which is hard to Intel bear, Q3 revenue guidance will decline.
RBC analyst's position has not been the response from the Intel side, but from the previous example ... these two things may indeed greater impact on Intel. By 2015 the United States announced sanctions against Chinese high-performance computing unit, and when sanctions are four major domestic Supercomputer Center, including Guangzhou Super Computer Center, which also makes Tianhe-2 supercomputer follow-up can no longer use the Intel chip upgrade.
Tianhe-2 supercomputer originally used the Intel Xeon E5-2692 12-core processor and Xeon Phi 31S1P Accelerator, has a total of 3.12 million core theoretical performance 54.9PFLOPS (petaflop), Linpack peak performance 33.86PTFLOPS, from June 2013 to June 2016 did not change its performance, re-elected six times TOP500 championship.
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US ban so that makes subsequent upgrades Tianhe-2 can no longer use Intel products, and by the end of 2017 started the Tianhe No. 2 domestic alternative, Accelerator upgrade to domestic Matrix 2000, each Accelerator uses four Matrix 2000 chips, each a Matrix 2000 kernels of 128, the frequency of 1.2GHz, can be performed on the 16 double-precision arithmetic week, peak performance processor 2.45TFLOPS.
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In addition to the accelerator Alternatively, the upgraded 2 Milky Milky 2A Supercomputer also improves network, memory, storage, and other key components, to lift from the 54.9PFLOPS 94.97FLOPS slight decrease in overall power consumption at the same time performance.
For Intel, the application of their Xeon Phi accelerator card in the Milky Way 2 ultra-count should have been an excellent example of cooperation, Tianhe-2 is six circles TOP500 champion, but because of sanctions, the follow-up can not be sold, Xeon Phi expand the market hopes dashed, especially in China's vast market, Intel eventually gave up Xeon Phi product line.
From: Fast Technology