Cerebras CEO puts Nvidia on blast for 'arming' China with top-tier GPUs

Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman has criticized Nvidia for its efforts to limbo dance under US semiconductor export limits to China, calling the behavior "un-American" and likening graphics processor titan to an AI arms dealer. "I think Nvidia armed China single handedly," he told The Register. "If you think about Chinese AI …

[Anonymous Coward]

If China eventually takes over Taiwan by force...

...the Taiwanese will have quite a few of their own citizens to thank: Foxconn's pro-Chinese Terry Gou, TSMC's ambiguous policy, NVIDIA's own Jen-Hsun Huang and a quite few others.

[Anonymous Coward]

What ?

No, no, no, there's nothing more american than getting the profits up and screw everything else.

After all, the duty is to the shareholders and the taxman only.

Sadly, most big companies are exactly the same. So no news here.

[jgarbo]

US free enterprise?

The US govt dictates who you do business with? Feldman's hypocrisy matches his govt's. A moral man.

[HereAndGone]

Competition

When a new competitor arrives on the scene there are two fundamental responses, try harder or undermine. One is easier than the other, at least in the short term.

[Jimmy2Cows]

Re: Competition

Feldman would do exactly the same as nVidia were the shoe on the other foot. Perhaps a bit less blatantly obvious, to limit the potentially bad optics he's casting on nVidia. But he'd do the same. He's clearly just not a position to do so.

Complaints of "un-American" behaviour ring hollow. nVidia are simply doing what every business does: trying to maximise sales while working within the rules. Especially most US businesses.

If the US gov doesn't like that, it should change the rules. If competitors don't like it, they can either lobby the US gov to change the rules, cry about unpatriotic behaviour of their competitors, or actually adjust their own product lines to compete on an equal footing. But acting all surprised and hurt when companies make adjustments to comply with those rules is just hot air.