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fromFortune
1 week ago

China does not need Nvidia chips in the AI war - export controls only pushed it to build its own AI machine. | Fortune

But they are wrong. These arguments assume that China cannot succeed in AI without access to these advanced AI chips, which is not the case. Advanced AI chips simply reduce the cost of AI. Today's state-of-the-art AI models require a large number of AI chips to build and run. An advanced chip has higher performance; therefore, fewer are needed to achieve the same AI performance.
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fromTechzine Global
2 weeks ago

Chinese tech companies train AI models in foreign data centers

Chinese tech firms train AI models offshore, especially in Southeast Asia, to access Nvidia chips unavailable in China due to US export controls.
fromArs Technica
2 months ago

China blocks sale of Nvidia AI chips

Nvidia started producing chips tailored for the Chinese market after former US President Joe Biden banned the company from exporting its most powerful products to China, in an effort to rein in Beijing's progress on AI. Beijing's regulators have recently summoned domestic chipmakers such as Huawei and Cambricon, as well as Alibaba and search engine giant Baidu, which also make their own semiconductors, to report how their products compare against Nvidia's China chips, according to one of the people with knowledge of the matter.
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