US to Introduce New Restrictions on China’s Access to Cutting-Edge Chips

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November 27, 2024, 10:50 PM

• •The Biden administration is expected to announce a sweeping set of measures on Monday designed to further restrain China’s ability to develop advanced artificial intelligence.
• •The controls could include sanctioning dozens of Chinese companies that produce equipment for making semiconductors, as well as placing restrictions on a handful of chip manufacturing plants, some of which have ties to the Chinese tech giant Huawei.
• •The US Department of Commerce has also discussed including controls on the sale of high-bandwidth memory, or HBM, an advanced kind of 3D-stacked computer memory component that is often used in high-performance GPUs and customized AI chips.

The Biden administration is expected to announce a sweeping set of measures on Monday designed to further restrain China’s ability to develop advanced artificial intelligence. The controls could include sanctioning dozens of Chinese companies that produce equipment for making semiconductors, as well as placing restrictions on a handful of chip manufacturing plants.

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