US Chips Are Paving China’s Path to AI Superiority and There’s No Easy Fix
PATRICK TUCKER | JULY 1, 2022 02:59 PM ET
CHINA TECHNOLOGY
Chips designed by U.S. companies are helping China work toward its goal of becoming the world leader in artificial intelligence by 2030, according to a new report out this week from the Center for Security in Emerging Technology, or CSET. But fixing that isn’t as simple as just passing new controls.
Some 97 public records of Chinese military purchases of AI chips show that “nearly all of them were designed by Nvidia, Xilinx (now AMD), Intel, or Microsemi”—all U.S. companies, the researchers wrote. “By comparison, we could not find any public records of [Chinese military] units or stateowned defense enterprises placing orders for high-end AI chips designed by Chinese companies, such as HiSilicon (Huawei), Sugon, Sunway, Hygon, or Phytium.”
Moreover, those U-S-designed chips are largely manufactured in bulk by Asian companies such as Samsung in South Korea and the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company in Taiwan—the self-governing island that U.S. Indo-Pacific Command leaders say could be invaded by China in the next five years.
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