We reported earlier this week that Iran had announced that it had built a quasi-supercomputer using 213 AMD chips despite U.S. sanctions which would forbid the export of those chips to Iran. Where do you think the chips came from?…
According to a piece published yesterday in Information Week, the Amirkabir University of Technology in Tehran announced that it had used 218 AMD microprocessors to build a supercomputer with a theoretical peak performance of 860 gigaflops. The fastest supercomputer in…
The Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) today released a document entitled “Notice for TSRA License Holders and Applicants.” In that document, OFAC notes that Bank Sepah, Bank Saderat, Bank Mellat and their branches and certain subsidiaries were designated pursuant…
Last Friday, the UAE announced it’s long-promised export law. The new law not only forbids the unlicensed export of “strategic goods” including military hardware, CBW precursors and dual use items but also creates a catch-all exception that would allow the…