Profits must roll in
Apparently, duty to the shareholders outweighs national security every time.
Intel has followed Nvidia's lead and will produce a modified version of its AI accelerator – specifically the Habana division's Guadi2 – for the Chinese market. Chen Baoli, VP and GM of Intel's Datacenter and AI Group in China, announced the availability of the chips during a press conference in Beijing this week. Several …
I'm not 100% sure how stopping sometime buying something from you, so that they run AIs/LLMs slower counts as "national security", but each to their own.
I'm guessing that national security also means that it's not good enough just to do well by yourself, you have to keep the other guy down!
>Apparently, duty to the shareholders outweighs national security every time.
"Maximizing shareholder value" is the prime directive of a US corporation. Has been for many decades now.
Also, although we think of Intel as a Californian company -- its where it started -- there's good reason to think that its not really American any more. It has global reach, global manufacturing and global R&D. So when you mention 'national security' what nation, exactly, are you talking about? From my relatively short stint there as 'an accidental Intel employee' maybe 20 years ago I'd reckon it was primarily an Israeli company, its investment there being limited by Israel being a bit small. It had facilities all over the world, of course, and it couldn't wait to close down its US operations and move everything overseas. (FWIW -- our work went to Russia initially, then it got transferred to Poland.)