[FYI] Defense bill could stifle computer trade
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Defense bill could stifle computer trade
Last modified: July 1, 2004, 4:00 AM PDT
By Robert Lemos
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
In a move that has re-energized the debate over export controls on
high-performance computers, the latest version of a defense-spending
bill would require companies to seek licenses to export even
underpowered desktop computers.
[...]
Today, computer sellers are required to get a license to export any
computer with performance equal to or greater than a system with 32
Intel Itanium processors. The current version of the defense
authorization act would lower that limit to systems deemed
"militarily critical" by the Department of Defense. That level is
currently set to the equivalent of a computer using a Pentium 3
processor running at 650MHz, state of the art in 1999 but considered
feeble today.
[...]
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