The Nvidia Chip Deal Helps China Achieve Its AI Goals
While President Donald Trump is wrong when he says Nvidia's H20 chip is 'obsolete,' it's right to note that it is not close to being the company's most powerful one and would not be used by the likes of OpenAI to build their most sophisticated models. The H20 was designed specifically to avoid previous export limits and is better suited to 'inference' — the running of AI — rather than 'training' — the creation of new models. The fact the H20 was cleared for sale, then not, and is now back again is proof enough that much of this is 'just theater and negotiation,' suggested leading semiconductor analyst Patrick Moorhead, who consulted with the current White House on this issue. The same appears to go for any concerns about national security threats.
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