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January 29, 2000, Saturday,
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SECTION: Business; Part C; Page 2; Financial Desk
LENGTH: 183 words
HEADLINE: BRIEFLY / TECHNOLOGY;
U.S. UNLIKELY TO EASE EXPORT CONTROLS ON CHIPS
BYLINE: Bloomberg News
BODY:
The Clinton administration probably will reject demands by Intel Corp., Unisys
Corp. and other companies to relax
export controls on a new, high-powered
computer chip, industry executives and an administration official said. After months of
lobbying by a computer industry group, President Clinton may not raise current
computing-speed limits as much as the industry has sought on exports to
countries such as China and Russia.
The decision is expected to be announced Feb. 1. Intel's new Itanium
chip--expected to arrive in the middle of this year--will make the revised
limit on computing speed obsolete, computer executives say.
"It's our understanding that the new rules will not reflect this new generation
of chip," said Ken Kay, head of the coalition and chairman of Infotech Strategies Inc.,
based in Washington. That means computer executives will have to continue their
campaign for looser controls, said Chuck Molloy, an Intel spokesman. The
Clinton administration is concerned that the faster computing speed could
enable terrorists to produce weapons of mass destruction.
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