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.
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.
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