Further Chip Curbs In Consideration

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The Biden administration is weighing additional curbs on China’s ability to access critical technology, including restricting the sale of high-end chips that are mainly used to power artificial intelligence (A.I.), according to five people familiar with the matter.

The curbs would clamp down on the sales to China of advanced chips made by companies like Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices and Intel, which are needed for the data centers that power A.I.

Biden officials have said that China’s A.I. capabilities could pose a national security threat to the United States by enhancing Beijing’s military and security apparatus. Among the concerns are the implementation of A.I. in guiding weapons, carrying out cyber warfare and the ability to power facial recognition systems that are designed to track dissidents and minorities.

Such curbs would be a blow to semiconductor manufacturers, including those in the United States, who still generate much of their revenue in China.

Nvidia’s shares closed down by 1.8 percent on Wednesday after reports of the potential export crackdown. The company has been one of the primary beneficiaries of the A.I. boom with its share price surging approximately 180 percent this year.

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Further Chip Curbs By The U.S. Looms

The Biden administration is considering closing a loophole that gives Chinese companies access to American A.I. chips through units located overseas, according to four people familiar with the matter.

Source: Industrial Equipment News

Since 2022, trade wars between the U.S. and Beijing had resulted in new restrictions on shipments of A.I. chips and chipmaking tools to China, an attempt to disrupt the nation’s military advances as well as its economy, directly affecting various industries in the process. The aforementioned rules are seemingly set to be further tightened in the coming days.

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Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC (2330.TW) has received a waiver extension from the U.S. to supply U.S. chip equipment to the company’s factories in China, Taiwan Economy Minister Wang Mei-hua said earlier today.

Source: Digitimes

Last October, the Biden administration published a sweeping set of export controls, including a revised measure to cut off China from certain semiconductor chips made anywhere in the world with U.S. tools, vastly expanding the reach of a bid to slow Beijing’s technological and military advances.

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Source: The Guardian

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