News U.S. issues worldwide crackdown on using Huawei Ascend chips, says it violates export controls

[Admin]

While scrapping the AI Diffusion Rule, the U.S. government has banned Huawei's Ascend AI processors as they allegedly use American technologies without authorization.

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[Ful4n1t0c0sme]

Another political post that nobody ask.

 

[bit_user]

This doesn't stop AI diffusion. This policy is really nothing more than a pure gift to Nvidia.

I guess Jensen's Jedi mind tricks finally worked.

 

[phead128]

Has the US gov't tried banning the laws of physics and breathing air in China?

 

[araczynski]

I'm more shocked Chi..someone hasn't yet hacked/bought and released the Epstein files that would....

 

[thestryker]

This doesn't stop AI diffusion. This policy is really nothing more than a pure gift to Nvidia.

I guess Jensen's Jedi mind tricks finally worked.

Just look at all the Saudi Arabia AI infrastructure announcements this week. These policy decisions have all been gifts to corporations based in the US.

 

[bit_user]

Just look at all the Saudi Arabia AI infrastructure announcements this week. These policy decisions have all been gifts to corporations based in the US.

I wonder how many of these announcements will ever amount to what was claimed at the signing. A lot of them could end up like a certain Foxconn plant in Wisconsin, or perhaps will amount to only 1/10th of the investment/purchase originally announced.

 

[phead128]

I wonder how many of these announcements will ever amount to what was claimed at the signing. A lot of them could end up like a certain Foxconn plant in Wisconsin, or perhaps will amount to only 1/10th of the investment/purchase originally announced.

$500 billion StarGate AI data centers can't get off the ground because of tariffs. A lot is theatrics and there is zero accountability.

 

[thestryker]

I wonder how many of these announcements will ever amount to what was claimed at the signing. A lot of them could end up like a certain Foxconn plant in Wisconsin, or perhaps will amount to only 1/10th of the investment/purchase originally announced.

Depends on how much Saudi Arabia wants massive AI data centers, and it sure seems they very much do. This week I've seen announcements with nvidia, AMD, Qualcomm and Supermicro which were all in the many billions. These had all been relatively impossible before with the AI export controls that had been in place due to the restrictions on Saudi Arabia.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/saudi-arabia-partners-with-nvidia-spur-ai-goals-trump-visits-2025-05-13/

 

[acadia11]

Jensen is right look at x86. It became ubiquitous because of both hardware and software availability … Nvidia did the same with its GPUs and CUDA. The pace of technology moves at a much faster pace today and these measures certainly won’t stop China and Huawei from filling that global void. As far as chip capacity … and needing TSMCand ASML ….think of it like nuclear weapons it’s not a question of China can develop the tooling but how quickly will they catch up. And judging by last 5 years this window is becoming increasingly much smaller.

 

[zsydeepsky]

well, at least now Huawei no longer needs to make ads to let people know they have a viable Ascend AI chip product line.

like, seriously, for the past decade, the US gov behaves almost like their best marketing agency.

 

[dynamicreflect]

In the past 200 years, China is always the leader of the world, no matter tech or what so ever, but never was.

 

[bit_user]

Depends on how much Saudi Arabia wants massive AI data centers, and it sure seems they very much do.

Sure, the AI infrastructure they want to build in their country seem pretty definite, but I'm talking mainly about investments they've promised to make in the USA. Also, other things, like the purchase of Boeing passenger planes - I'm sure the initial orders would be difficult to back out of, but the subsequent batches, further down the line, seem like they'd be a lot easier to cancel.

 

[Constellar]

This doesn't stop AI diffusion. This policy is really nothing more than a pure gift to Nvidia.

I guess Jensen's Jedi mind tricks finally worked.

But the Force is weak with Jedi Huang, since Darth DJT intends on strengthening Nvidia controls...

 

[bit_user]

But the Force is weak with Jedi Huang, since Darth DJT intends on strengthening Nvidia controls...

Counting on an unproven and unprecedented "kill-switch" mechanism to prevent diffusion is exactly the sort of non-solution that plays right into Nvidia's interests.

The smart and prudent thing to do would be to develop and deploy that solution. Then, start removing other controls, only when (and for as long as) evidence supported the geolocation/kill-switch actually worked as an effective substitute.