… 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…
… 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…
… 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. …
China's ongoing ability to access advanced AI chips from the likes of NVIDIA and AMD has remained a hard-to-crack conundrum in Washington for quite some time now. …
… One of the biggest obstacles is access to advanced lithography equipment. The most sophisticated chip production relies on extreme ultraviolet EUV lithography machines produced by the Dutch company ASML. Export restrictions have limited China’s access to these systems. …
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… US firm NVIDIA's products remain the highest-performance AI chips in the world and sanctions on advanced chip manufacturing technology have also limited China's ability to develop local chips capable of matching NVIDIA's products. …
A SemiAnalysis teardown of Huawei's Kirin 9030 Pro suggests SMIC's DUV-only N+3 process rivals Intel's 18A node in one unexpected area despite lacking access to EUV lithography. …