Nvidia CEO says China wouldn't risk building military supers with American AI chips If the US military wouldn't be caught dead building supercomputers using Chinese kit, there's no reason to think the People's Liberation Army would risk using American gear, argues Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. "The Chinese military, no different than the American military, will not seek each other's technology out to be built on …
If they are designing the GPUs then they will likely also be producing the chips for them etc. Furthermore, if they are using US products in the weapons, then they will be dependent on the US during a time of war, which would be a huge advantage to the US, just as it is a huge advantage to China that the US is so dependent on China.
So, while I respect your dry eyes, I believe there are many in the US that would be shedding tears - people with jobs not only at NVIDIA, but also the many businesses that are enabled by NVIDIAs success - such as all those chip making plants the US is trying to spin up now.
While I understand the argument in favor of restrictions and concern about enabling China's military machine, I think that's mostly short term, and long term it makes more sense for the US to strive to keep the best suppliers in the US or US-friendly countries (hello? are you still on the line?) and hope that the CCP is buying from them.
Just my opinion and I have no connection to NVIDIA. I would be more inclined to pressure NVIDIA over their plans to reduce production of RTX 5090 in order to keep domestic prices high. The best way to advance AI is have affordable on-premise AI hardware that allow usage and innovation to grow from the bottom up. Let 1000 flowers bloom.
