Comment on U.S. issues warning to NVIDIA, urging to stop redesigning chips for China
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 6 months agoI think it’s quite clever actually.
They clearly realise that if China can’t buy their chips, China will put the full force of a planned economy behind making their own. Once that happens cheap Chinese AI chips will eat their lunch.
Exactly. They want to maintain their insane margins with their oligopoly. The second you get a viable cheap competitor, it will all come crashing down.
Of course, it’s a massive undertaking to catch up enough to be feasible. But China has the manufacturing experience, and a government initiative could allocate an insane amount of resources behind it if they were motivated to.
So it’s obviously in NVidia’s best interest to deter it with appeasement.
Also I assume things move much faster there unlike here where every move needs to be scrutinised and approved by 400 different people on 350 different committees.
Dictatorships are more efficient, at a cost
Depends. Most of them turn into inefficient corruption at every level. China is a bit unique where they have corruption at every level, but also fall in line or get axed whenever there’s a big initiative that has too much visibility.
Results vary widely. But at least things get made, big and fast. Quality on the other hand…
Good point! Hadn’t thought of that
abhibeckert@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Everyone thought that would happen with Huawei. What actually happened was several major countries banned Huawei and a lot of the ones that allowed them in are having second thoughts. Germany, for example, is in the early discussion phase to remove Huawei equipment (which is already deployed) from their cell network.