2028: Two scenarios for global AI leadership
…Despite this state-backed investment, PRC AI labs and chipmakers remain stymied by US and allied export controls on advanced chips and chipmaking equipment. As a result, the compute gap appears to…
…Despite this state-backed investment, PRC AI labs and chipmakers remain stymied by US and allied export controls on advanced chips and chipmaking equipment. As a result, the compute gap appears to…
…Markets The US AI policy shift towards China has been ongoing since NVIDIA's Hopper generation of chips . Export controls restricted NVIDIA from selling its bleeding-edge chips to Chinese firms & this…
…The H200 chips are modified, lower-tier versions of NVIDIA’s flagship AI accelerators, designed to comply with US export restrictions. The US has also approved Lenovo and Foxconn as distributors, with…
…As Huang himself explains, the AI industry is like a layer cake with five levels: energy production, AI chips, infrastructure like data centers, AI models and finally AI applications. By Huang's…
…in 2025, Beijing imposed two rounds of export controls on 14 rare earth materials critical to high-tech military manufacturing, and separately barred state-funded data centers from deploying foreign AI chips…
…export restrictions than the accelerators that underpin Nvidia's data center business, and the company's recent history in China shows that Washington is no longer the only obstacle. The U.S…
…This allows Qualcomm to sell chips to Bytedance without running afoul of existing U.S. restrictions. With ByteDance reportedly having boosted its AI infrastructure budget by 25% to nearly $29.4 billion…
News PC Hardware May 25, 2026 by Nick Farrell Huawei reckons folding chips beats sanctions Huawei says it can dodge US chip bans with stacked silicon tricks, giving Washington’s export controls…
…That flexibility matters because US export controls restrict Chinese firms from accessing the world's most advanced AI chips, particularly those used for training, which at this point are primarily developed by…
…Huawei’s Ascend chips exist because Nvidia’s H100s were restricted. SMIC’s advancing nodes exist because TSMC access was threatened. The export control regime intended to slow China’s AI development…