US lawmakers are urging the Biden administration to tighten the current AI chip export rules to pull China back in the AI race.
Though the US government levied certain export restrictions on China, US OEMs make specially crafted AI GPUs to circumvent the tensions and continue their trade. As this leads China into the ongoing trade war, US officials are pushing for better crackdown rules.
Pulling Back China in the AI Race
The trade tensions between US and China aren’t settling anytime soon, as the nations are fighting more aggressively than ever to be the No.1 economy. Currently, they’re so engaged in the AI war that the US is doing everything to stamp down China in the ongoing AI race.
With Generative AI picking up the pace, China is aggressively buying AI GPUs from US makers – Nvidia, Intel and AMD, to compete with said Western companies. Seeing this as a threat to the nation, the US levied export restrictions on AI GPUs to China, which limits their buying capacity.
Well, to circumvent this, US OEMs like Nvidia and Intel have crafted special AI GPUs that are of lower power and sell to Chinese customers.
Since it’s seen as a loophole they’re exploiting, two U.S. lawmakers – Representative Mike Gallagher, a Republican and chair of the House of Representatives select committee on China and Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi, a Democrat and ranking member of the committee, have urged the Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo to tighten the export control rules against China.
This includes performance capping of AI chips exported to China – in terms of how fast the chips can talk to one another and the chips’ processing speeds. This should hopefully discourage the OEMs and buyers and push the Asian country behind in the AI race.
The lawmakers’ letter to the commerce secretary has also urged the US government to “closely consider” cutting off China from the advanced computing chips for Cloud made by Google, Microsoft and Amazon to thump China in the cloud race too.
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