… That has experts like Kondi watching on carefully. “The risks of accelerated domestication grow if China has greater access to advanced chips,” she said, “and wider PRC access to these chips also empowers China's defence capabilities and enables it to expand its pervasive and repressive surveillanc…
… In China, it's an open secret that many of the country's high-level own or have access to Blackwell and other advanced chips, but despite all the trade restrictions and pushing the usage of local-made chips, the CCP has seemingly yet to crack down on said AI players. …
… There are ongoing disputes between the U.S. and the Netherlands over whether ASML should be allowed to service and sell less advanced chip fabrication machines to China, while still restricting access to the latest tools. …
… Both those for exporting American AI chips to China and those against giving them access to this advanced hardware have valid points, but we can only know which side is right years, if not decades, from now. …
… This is the first arrest Taiwan has made in connection with the U.S. crackdown on AI chip smuggling, and the first to reveal Japan as a transshipment point for these illicit goods. Many smuggling operations have been using Southeast Asian nations to route Nvidia chips to China. …
… China is already pushing its chipmakers hard to start DRAM production, and the government reportedly asked CXMT to share its process technologies with others. …
… Go deeper with TH Premium: Chipmaking A deeper look at the chipmaking supply chain TSMC's $165 billion U.S. investments examined China reportedly reverse-engineers EUV tool China bets on DUV, as EUV blockade reshapes chipmaking The report sorts Beijing's methods into five categories: economic state… …
… Overseas customers could still access Chinese AI services and models remotely, so Chinese companies can still monetize their work from foreign customers. However, restrictions on downloadable model weights could still have significant implications for China's AI industry. …
… Loongson says each core integrates two fixed-point units, one vector unit, and two memory access units. Cache and memory support are modest by modern server standards, but in line with the chip’s low-cost positioning. …
… Huawei's goal is to produce chips with transistor density equivalent to 1.4nm processes by 2031, all without access to the extreme ultraviolet EUV lithography equipment restricted under U.S. export controls. …