… Link: White House Official Says Moonshot Accessed Banned Nvidia Chips | https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-22/white-house-official-says-moonshot-accessed-banned-nvidia-chips?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc4NDc…
… The government has used export controls to restrict China’s access to the most advanced chips, as well as to force Anthropic to pull its most capable system from the market over concerns it could help foreign competitors catch up. …
… The Trump administration has sought to limit China’s access to chips from firms like NVIDIA and placed steep tariffs on products going in and out of the country. China responded by building around more readily available and generalized CPUs. …
… Sales start on June 10th, though early bird access begins from June 3rd, with the option to secure a $29 discount. The 11S Pro previously launched in China on May 18th in two distinct versions — the international version is a hybrid of the two, though is much closer in specs to China’s 11S Pro Plus. …
… An open ecosystem gives Chinese companies a way to innovate near the frontier despite tighter access to advanced chips and computing power, while fitting neatly into Beijing’s broader industrial strategy of encouraging wider adoption of Chinese models, tools, and infrastructure. …
… Part of the White House’s decision to pull Mythos reportedly stems from its belief a group linked to China had accessed the model. Most governments and businesses cannot come close to matching the scale and resources of frontier labs in the US or China. …
… For years, we have been warned that China was catching up in AI. …
… We still have a lot of customers in China. We try to help… For example, we are still supplying in-car inference chips because they’re still below the threshold of what GPU is allowed to sell in the China market. …
… And while Siri AI will be accessible on the same products that can use existing Apple Intelligence features, some of the most powerful new on-device AI features will be limited to select models: the iPhone Air and iPhone 17 Pro, iPads with at least an M4 chip, and Macs with at least an M3, though t… …
… One reason for that nervousness is that China’s biggest constraint is that they — at least theoretically — don’t have the same kind of access to GPUs as US companies, and yet their AI systems are still competitive. …