The Trump administration is exploring the option to harden the veto for the sale of chips manufactured by NVIDIA to China, after the start-up China Depseek will premiere a language model capable of rivaling with chatgpt, developed with less up -to -date processors and cheaper. Discussions in Washington develop around possible restrictions on NVIDIA H20 chips.
However, the White House will not move its chips yet, since Trump’s team is still landing. In this sense, and although the tycoon has not yet used the same vehement tone in relation to the sanctions on China, the tariff drive of the Republican, as well as the road map followed by Washington in the commercial war with the Asian giant, predicted a reinforcement of the restrictions on the export of chips to China.
So, Howard Lutnickthe millionaire candidate for the Ministry of Commerce, said Wednesday that it will be “very strong” in relation to the restrictions on the semiconductors. For its part, a Nvidia spokesman has pointed out that the company “is ready to work with the administration while looking for its own way of addressing AI.”
This movement would indicate that Washington does not come out of a path that, seen what is seen, is not coming out as the White House expected. The advent of Deepseekconsidered as a chatgpt Lowcostreveals that US restrictions on Chinese access technology access to the manufacture of advanced chips has prompted, precisely, the production of powerful semiconductors. Thus, the Xi Jinping government has created the conditions to virtue of the need, promoting local manufacturing of vigorous processors. The use of these chips, together with less powerful semiconductors made by companies such as NVIDIA, has allowed Deepseek to develop its language model.
On the other hand, it is not the first time that Beijing avoids US restrictions. In 2023, Hauwei presented the Mate 60 phone, a device that contained in its guts a chip that, theoretically, no Chinese company was able to develop. It was Kirin 9000s, a seven -nanometers processor developed by the SMIC firm, and which received the cryptonime of ‘Charlotte’ during its development to keep its manufacture secret.
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