Trump bans sales of chip design software to China
arstechnica.com
Move is another attempt to make it tougher for China to develop cutting-edge AI hardware.

Several people familiar with the move said the US Department of Commerce had told so-called electronic design automation groups—which include Cadence, Synopsys, and Siemens EDA—to stop supplying their technology to China.

The Bureau of Industry and Security, the arm of the US commerce department that oversees export controls, issued the directive to the companies via letters, according to the people. It was unclear if every US EDA company had received a letter.

The move marks a significant new effort by the administration to stymie China’s ability to develop leading-edge artificial intelligence chips, as it seeks a technological advantage over its geopolitical rival. In April, Washington restricted the export of Nvidia’s China-specific AI chips.

  • golli@lemm.eeEnglish
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    8 days ago

    I am honestly not sure about that. Similar to the ASML restrictions this does hinder them in the short term, but it also means they have all the more reason to double their efforts to make a domestic product. And it also means the chinese firms get this whole market by default and the western ones lose it, which in return means less revenue/profit to keep pushing ahead.

    I guess at this stage it might be all that’s left as a counter measure, but I feel like the west in general really dropped the ball pushing for general equal access and opportunities, when it still had a stronger hand.