It's good to be near the top of the list.
As for the embargo's likely effectiveness, #1 on the Top500 list happens to be China's Sunway TaihuLight at the National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi. It sustains a performance of 93 petaflops using 10,649,600 cores, all of them 1.45GHz Sunway (also rendered ShenWay) SW26010 devices, which fit Dongarra's description of "lightweight" processors. And all were made in China.
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