The United States warned that using Huawei Technologies\u2019 Ascend artificial intelligence chips anywhere in the world violates the government\u2019s export controls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This week, the Commerce Department issued guidance about using Huawei Technologies\u2019 Ascend artificial intelligence chips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It said using these chips anywhere in the world violates the government\u2019s export controls, escalating US efforts to curb technological advances in China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The agency\u2019s Bureau of Industry and Security said in a statement Tuesday that it\u2019s also planning to warn the public about \u201cthe potential consequences of allowing US AI chips to be used for training and inference of Chinese AI models.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The training of AI models involves bombarding them with data to teach them to recognize patterns. Inference, meanwhile, is the stage where models use that training to carry out tasks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Commerce\u2019s guidance stands to make it all the more difficult for Shenzhen-based Huawei to fulfil its ambitions of developing more powerful chips for AI and smartphones, efforts that have already hit major snags because of US sanctions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Huawei was designing its next two Ascend processors \u2014 China\u2019s answer to Nvidia Corp.\u2019s dominant accelerators \u2014 around the same 7-nanometer architecture that\u2019s been mainstream for years, Bloomberg reported in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
United States-led restrictions had already kept Huawei\u2019s chipmaking partners from procuring state-of-the-art systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The bureau laid out the new instructions while more broadly announcing the rescission of Biden administration-era regulations on the export of semiconductors used in developing AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Those rules had drawn strenuous objections from US allies and companies, including Nvidia and Oracle Corp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Biden\u2019s regulations \u201cwould have undermined US diplomatic relations with dozens of countries by downgrading them to second-tier status,\u201d the Commerce Department said in the statement Tuesday, adding that it will publish a notice that formalizes the rescission of the rule and issue a replacement \u201cin the future.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Trump administration is drafting its own approach and could shift toward negotiating individual deals with countries, according to people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Commerce Department said in its statement that whatever comes of it will be \u201ca bold, inclusive strategy to American AI technology with trusted foreign countries around the world, while keeping the technology out of the hands of our adversaries.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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