Congressional China hawks are urging the Biden administration to restrict sales of chip-making tools to Chinese companies, similar to an action taken against telecommunications equipment maker Huawei Technologies Co (HWT.UL).

In a letter to U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, Representative Michael McCaul and Senator Tom Cotton said the rule that requires U.S. licenses to sell semiconductors made abroad with U.S. technology to Huawei should apply to any Chinese company designing more advanced chips at 14-nanometers or below.

The letter, which is dated April 13 and was made public on Thursday, seeks licenses for the sale of electronic design automation (EDA) software, among other curbs on chip-related sales to Chinese companies.

The actions would "ensure U.S. companies as well as those from partner and allied countries are not permitted to sell the communists the rope they will use to hang us all," the letter said.

It is just inevitable.

From today Positive Technologies is under US sanctions and it is prohibited to do any business with them.

Company is known for research of undocumented Intel ME engine and corresponding secret parts of CPUs.

Recently they unveiled hidden and totally secret commands that each Intel processor has and that are aimed to provide total control and go around any restrictions that OS has.

It seems like Intel is not much happy as company is very close to disclosing huge security holes. It can be politics only that prevent huge worldwide scandal now that will follow after disclosure.

Partially good idea - add motors to help with inhale.

One thing that LG do not tell you - your lungs actually train to adjust if you use such masks constantly.

Inside design is horrible with introduction of one time use pads that are always wet, what idiot made it?

This happens as they made mask too close and exhale valve is wrongly placed and too small.

Also - you can't use human ears to attach mask, every idiot who used mask for more than few hours time know it.

Even for surgical masks doctors use plastic pieces to remove straps from ears.

Silicon insert is universal one size - meaning it won'r fit most people at all. As such thing does not exist (3M makes 3 sizes and even for them some people are not too happy).

It is also not properly sealed, so, you will always inhale some air that did not pass filters.

Due to the US sanctions against Huawei, we have witnessed a panic build-up of stocks among global companies, especially Chinese ones. In the past, companies had little to no stockpiling, but now they are stockpiling for three or six months. This caused the entire system to malfunction.

Nice kick from Huawei.