Nvidia CEO takes a shot at U.S. policy cutting off AI chip sales to China
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CEO of Nvidia Jensen Huang has criticised US restrictions on chip sales to China, saying that Beijing’s AI market will nevertheless run effectively, regardless of whether it uses US or Chinese semiconductors.
Huang added that the real question concerns which technology the world’s AI stack will run on, saying that it is a “global infrastructure leadership stake”.
China is home to around $50bn worth of AI research and development and is the largest AI market in the world, while the US has placed restrictions on selling advanced integrated circuits (ICs) to China.
He also welcomed the rescinding of the AI Diffusion Rule by the Trump administration, which aimed to place export controls on AI model weights.