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By ELLEN NAKASHIMA | The Washington Post | Published: April 8, 2021 WASHINGTON The Biden administration on Thursday placed seven Chinese firms and government labs under U.S. export controls for their involvement in China s effort to build supercomputers that help develop nuclear and other advanced military weapons. All seven are linked to China s ambition to build the world s first exascale computer, Commerce Department officials said. An exascale computer the next frontier in high-performance computing can handle a million trillion calculations per second. That s the sort of speed necessary to more accurately model the heat and drag on hypersonic vehicles, a field of advanced weapons research in which the Chinese military is already engaged, using its current generation of supercomputers.