High-tech firms urged to offset blows from US curbs

Chinese high-tech companies should prepare for possible expansion of US government technology restrictions to more emerging sectors and should press ahead with developing core technologies, a leading technology expert said.

The comment came after the Bureau of Industry and Security of the United States Department of Commerce announced on Monday that it had put five high-performance computing groups on its Entity List, barring them from buying US parts and components without government approval due to security concerns.

Supercomputer manufacturer Sugon, supercomputer research institute Wuxi Jiangnan Institute of Computing Technology, semiconductor company Higon, Chengdu Haiguang Integrated Circuit and Chengdu Haiguang Microelectronics Technology, along with numerous "aliases" of the five entities, were added to the list as a result of security concerns.