“#DeepSeek says that the main restriction on their development is lack of compute, and the PRC responds not by helping them get better chips but by advising them to not use the chips that they have, greatly slowing things down at least for a while. (...) It’s also not fair to fully pin this on DeepSeek when they were forced to do a lot of their training this year on #Huawei Ascend chips rather than Nvidia chips.” (The #NVIDIA chips they had been using in the past.) #China #politics #neural-networks #AI #news
on 02025-08-23#USA (especially #Trump) persuaded #Australia, #New-Zealand, #Japan, #France, #Germany, and the #UK to ban or partly ban #Huawei after adding them to the #export-controls list in 02019; the UK in particular mandated removal of Huawei equipment from #5G networks by 02027. #HarmonyOS #politics #China
on 02024-11-27#Huawei got some #TSMC chips through a middleman despite #USA export controls. #China #politics #history
on 02024-10-24#video on #Huawei’s new "Ascend 910C" GPU #hardware. Mostly repeating stock footage and Ken Burns Effect, not worth watching.
on 02024-09-11#video from November on #Huawei’s new #HiSilicon Mate60 #cellphones and #China/#USA #politics. “If those US [export] controls had been successful, then a smartphone as powerful as this should not be possible without importing key components” because they used 7nm photolithography.
on 02024-09-10#Huawei to be fully cut off from #USA chipmakers by #China #sanctions #politics
on 02023-02-01