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Ban van investeringen door Verenigde Staten op Chinese tech sector
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White House unveils ban on US investment in Chinese tech sectors | Financial Times
Biden cites security risk as he restricts American capital for companies linked to China’s military
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“The Biden administration will ban US investment into quantum computing, advanced chips and artificial intelligence sectors in China, as it ratchets up efforts to ensure the Chinese military does not benefit from American technology and capital.”
Betekentd dit nu dat ze niet meer in pakweg Alibaba, Tencent of Baidu mogen investeren? Die zitten in AI via hun cloud tak…
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En wat verder in de gazet een artikel dat de Chinese Big Tech volop hun AI aan het uitbouwen is met verouderde Nvidia chips:
Baidu, ByteDance, Tencent and Alibaba have made orders worth $1bn to acquire about 100,000 A800 processors from the US chipmaker to be delivered this year, according to multiple people familiar with the matter. The A800 is a weakened version of Nvidia’s cutting-edge A100 GPU for data centres. Due to export restrictions imposed by Washington last year in a bid to choke Beijing’s technological ambitions, Chinese tech companies are only able to buy A800s.
“The price of the A800 in the hands of distributors has risen by more than 50 per cent,” said one Nvidia distributor.
https://www.ft.com/content/9dfee156-4870-4ca4-b67d-bb5a285d855c
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China’s internet giants order $5bn of Nvidia chips to power AI ambitions | Financial Times
Baidu, ByteDance, Tencent and Alibaba rush to acquire GPUs amid concern US will soon clamp down on their export
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