Chinese companies such as Alibaba make Qwen and other popular open source AI models. This new rule will have a big impact on that community. Case in point: Alibaba rents advanced Nvidia chips from Megaspeed’s data centers located in Singapore and Malaysia. Megaspeed is the company ran by Huang’s spy mistress.
Aren’t Nvidia’s chips made in China anyway? Couldn’t they just take the specs from the Nvidia factories and start their own factory and start making their own versions? What would happen in practicality if they did that? Like, I get that it’s technically “corporate espionage” but China has been doing that for decades anyway. What would be the difference? Nvidia would get mad at them? It’s not like Nvidia has a choice to move production out of china, right?I’m uniformed. Apparently, Nvidia’s chips are made in Taiwan primarily: https://geekbitz.com/where-are-nvidia-chips-made/
Yup. The chips are made in Taiwan at present. The hardware containing those chips is often made in China.
China used to make their high end chips in Taiwan as well like some of Huawei’s mobile SoC, until Biden pressed Taiwan to cut them off. Now they produce domestically and their domestic high-end chip manufacturing hasn’t caught up to Taiwan’s yet.
Got it. Thanks!