Biden To Further Limit AI Chip Exports In Final Push (yahoo.com) 16
The Biden administration plans one additional round of restrictions on the export of AI chips before leaving office, "a final push in his effort to keep advanced technologies out of the hands of China and Russia," reports Bloomberg. From the report: The US wants to curb the sale of AI chips used in data centers on both a country and company basis, with the goal of concentrating AI development in friendly nations and getting businesses around the world to align with American standards, according to people familiar with the matter. The result would be an expansion of semiconductor caps to most of the world -- an attempt to control the spread of AI technology at a time of soaring demand. The regulations, which could be issued as soon as Friday, would create three tiers of chip trade restrictions, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the discussions are private.
At the top level, a small number of US allies would maintain essentially unmitigated access to American chips. A group of adversaries, meanwhile, would be effectively blocked from importing the semiconductors. And the vast majority of the world would face limits on the total computing power that can go to one country. Countries in the last group would be able to bypass their national limits -- and get their own, significantly higher caps -- by agreeing to a set of US government security requirements and human rights standards, one of the people said. That type of designation -- called a validated end user, or VEU -- aims to create a set of trusted entities that develop and deploy AI in secure environments around the world.
At the top level, a small number of US allies would maintain essentially unmitigated access to American chips. A group of adversaries, meanwhile, would be effectively blocked from importing the semiconductors. And the vast majority of the world would face limits on the total computing power that can go to one country. Countries in the last group would be able to bypass their national limits -- and get their own, significantly higher caps -- by agreeing to a set of US government security requirements and human rights standards, one of the people said. That type of designation -- called a validated end user, or VEU -- aims to create a set of trusted entities that develop and deploy AI in secure environments around the world.
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Someone should tell you that they are in fact all made in Taiwan.
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Someone should tell you that they are in fact all made in Taiwan.
TSMC's new fab in Arizona will begin operating in a few months.
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Someone should tell you that they are in fact all made in Taiwan.
Which is legally part of China - as all governments including the US government acknowledge.
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Is that non-binding international law you're talking about?
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No, the US considers the status of Taiwan as unsettled. It neither recognizes Taiwan as a sovereign country nor the PRCs sovereignty over Taiwan.
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I can go on, but with the exception of McConnell, when was the last time any of these people managed to represent anyone in any meaningful way?
McConnell on the other hand is probably the most powerful politician in decades. Truly terrifying. He quietly packed the US courts, bought multiple presidents on both sides of the aisle, banned abortion, got prayer in schools... He did all of this while
It will not help (Score:2)
A group of adversaries, meanwhile, would be effectively blocked from importing the semiconductors. And the vast majority of the world would face limits...
All this is going to do is to give a boost to those outside the US in developing the same technology. Most chip manufacturing is done outside the US and, by the time Trump has finished putting tarrifs on everything, even from Canada, everyone's reliance on US trade is going to be much less so the US will have a far smaller stick to persuade others not to manufacture and sell competing technology.
That's the flip side of pretectionism: in the short term it will get your jobs back and give you an economic
Re: It will not help (Score:1)
Being the largest consumer of bullshit consumer products does not translate into untouchable strategic advantage.
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All this is going to do is to give a boost to those outside the US in developing the same technology.
For China and Russia, yes. Everyone else, no.... unless you're talking about third-wold nations where dictators are welcome and human-rights violations are the norm.
The point is not to halt sanctioned nations but to slow them down. Why people understand the first point but fail to think long enough to grasp this second point is dumbfounding.
everyone's reliance on US trade is going to be much less so the US will have a far smaller stick to persuade others not to manufacture and sell competing technology.
The restrictions are only on enemy and frenemy nations, everyone else is unaffected by this.
That's the flip side of pretectionism: in the short term it will get your jobs back and give you an economic boost but...
At no point in any of this has anyone said this would help the economy and po
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Congrats, Biden, that was really stupid. (Score:2)
First, you've boosted Chinese chip development and pushed Chinese chop forms stocks higher, whilst possibly fatally damaging chipmakers like Intel who are already in a bad way.
Second, you've completely failed to understand that Neural Nets are equivalent to N boolean functions of width M, where M is the number of inputs and N is the number of outputs. This means a fully trained NN can be recoded onto a single ASIC and run far faster on far less power. So AIs for standard stuff don't need huge data centres,
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LOL (Score:2)
This is literally driving China forward on AI. Not sure it's a good idea for the world to not have division of labor. We could have a lot more cool stuff if nations specialized in different things instead of having to do duplicate work.