NEC was an important part of the design team but said that its own struggling business has forced it to halt participation in the manufacturing phase of the supercomputer effort.

NEC是设计团队中的重要一员，不过他们宣称由于遇到财政危机因此不得不在原型机制造阶段离开项目组。

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And so they're just going to keep going until they get to a specific point to call a halt for another phase of the operation.

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The final phase of construction ground to a halt last year in a public dispute over funding between the builder, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and the nonprofit foundation that raised the money for the project.

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