The US DOJ detains two men for allegedly violating export controls by trying to smuggle $160M+ of Nvidia H100 and H200 chips to China; a third man pleads guilty
DOJ says H100 and H200 shipments were relabelled with a fictional brand to dodge export controls Institute for Progress : Should the US Sell Hopper Chips to China? Jasper Ward / Reuters : US Justice D...
Sources: the Chinese government is intervening in how SMIC distributes its chip output for AI, prioritizing Huawei amid US export restrictions on advanced chips
Shortages of advanced AI chips are so acute that Beijing is intervening and tech companies are resorting to workarounds
Sources: Trump officials are considering removing a Biden-era rule that divides the world into three tiers to determine how many AI chips a country can obtain
stakes for tech dominance escalate Diya Lal / Tech in Asia : Trump administration may revise Biden's AI chip export rules Archanarani / Verdict : Trump team weighing changes to Biden-era AI chip expor...
The Biden admin unveils a new chip export rule that gives 18 key allies full AI chips access while requiring licenses from most other countries, including China
now the EU has shown concerns about the U.S. limits on how much AI chips certain EU states can buy. — ec.europa.eu/commission/p... Sung Kim / @sungkim : Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo stated “Hold...
Sources: the US has approved the export of advanced AI chips to a Microsoft-operated facility in the UAE as part of the company's partnership with G42
- Lawmakers have raised concerns over the partnership, saying there is a risk it could open up a back door for China to access the advanced technology.
How an underground network of Chinese sellers is bypassing US export controls through supply-chain blind spots to smuggle Nvidia's advanced AI chips into China
An informal market circumvents U.S. export controls through supply-chain blind spots—and in one case, a student's luggage
Gina Raimondo says Nvidia “can, will, and should” sell commercial AI chips to China, but not advanced AI chips, and spoke to Jensen Huang about the US rules
The Biden administration is in discussions with Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O) about permissible sales of artificial intelligence chips …
Sources: the US plans to require AWS and other cloud providers to seek permission before providing services that use advanced AI chips to Chinese customers
Biden administration proposal, aimed at closing loophole in chip export controls, could escalate tit-for-tat fight with Beijing