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The new regulations from the Ministry of Commerce and the General Administration of Customs are aimed in particular at drones which can fly for more than one hour and at heights of more than 15,420 metres.
China has banned the export of military drones due to the national security risks that these gadgets posses.
The authorities did not explain how the devices are a threat to national security in the short announcement.
The limits placed on high-power computer chips could potentially be the result of renewed competition between China and the US in the field of supercomputers.
“The chief aim of a given export and advertise limitation on drones is coming to to anti-terror needs, to refrain from huge, hi-tech drones from sliding to the banned factors”, this report said.
Leading Chinese maker DJI dominates the global market and has said that its products “were not involved in these (new) export controls”, according to a statement reported by Chinese media, suggesting the government was mainly interested in restricting exports of military technology.
China’s Tianhe-2 supercomputer now tops the list of the world’s biggest supercomputers and has a top processing speed of about 34 petaflops (33,862 teraflops).
None of the DJI products will be banned, the company said after a review of the standards.
In response, U.S. government agencies forced Intel to stop selling its Xeon processors to the Chinese supercomputer builders.
“It was a surprise decision for the industry, but it really makes sense in terms of national security and the healthy growth of the industry”.
The ban came two weeks after a drone likely made by a Chinese company was caught in worldwide crossfire.
China has imposed strict restrictions on the exports of drones in the backdrop of the controversy over Pakistan’s claims of shooting down an “Indian spy drone” along the LoC, which was later found out to be a China-made UAV.
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In April this year, the US stopped Intel working with China on a supercomputer that, once built, would be more powerful than Tianhe-2.
