And on the same day, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs also responded to the US's ban on chip sales. Spokesperson Wang Wenbin said that the US's move is to abuse national power, damage international economic and trade order, and disrupt the stability of the global industrial chain and supply chain. China firmly opposes this. The US politicizes, tools and weapons science and technology and economic and trade issues, engages in technology blockade and "decoupling" technology, attempting to monopolize the world's advanced technology, maintains its own technological hegemony, and undermines the industrial chain and supply chain of close cooperation in the world. This move by the US will be doomed to fail.
On August 31, local time, the United States issued a notice to famous chip research and development companies Nvidia and AMD, prohibiting these two companies from selling high-end chips to China. Many people’s first impression of Nvidia and AMD is that they are “making graphics cards.” In fact, the GPU chips made by these two companies enjoy a high reputation in the fields of artificial intelligence and supercomputing. In recent years, China has developed rapidly in the field of artificial intelligence, so the United States has tried its best to suppress and pose technical barriers. The restrictions this time are Nvidia's A100 and the upcoming new product H100. and AMD's MI250 artificial intelligence chip.
Affected by this incident, Nvidia closed down 7.7% on September 1. At the same time, Nvidia also predicted that when the A100 and H100 chips have not been completely replaced, the US export restrictions on Nvidia will directly cause it to lose up to US$400 million. Under the pressure of causing losses to its own semiconductor industry, the United States also wants to ban the sale of high-end chips. What is it that it intends?
In recent years, artificial intelligence and supercomputers have developed extremely fast in my country. As we all know, artificial intelligence needs super high computing power to carry out deep learning. For example, before visual recognition artificial intelligence recognizes various objects, it must first view a large number of pictures and master the basic recognition characteristics of various objects before it can quickly distinguish various objects. The speech recognition we often use is also the same. We need to listen to a large number of voices or even various dialects to quickly recognize words when we hear voices. The listening and watching process is deep learning. The higher the computing power, the faster the artificial intelligence will learn. In the future, various tasks can be performed to learn more independently and have a higher accuracy rate.
In fact, the United States has suppressed my country's supercomputers for more than a day or two. As early as 2015, four Chinese semiconductor companies related to the " Tianhe 2 " project were included in the United States' "entity list". In 2019, the United States included five Chinese scientific research institutions and enterprises including Wuxi Jiangnan Computing Technology Institute, Inspur , Haiguang, etc. into the "Entity List". In 2021, Feiteng and 7 supercomputer institutions including Shenwei were added to this list.
This time, Nvidia and AMD were banned from exporting advanced chips, indicating that the United States will not hesitate to give up the interests of its own semiconductor companies, and also suppress China in the technology field. In fact, the United States had previously formed the so-called "chip four-party alliance" to "decouple" from China in the semiconductor field. Analysts believe that with China's current position in the global supply system, the United States will suppress China in the field of technology, and the whole world will ultimately bear the consequences of this practice of the United States.
