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Days after pushing for sweepingAI chip export restriction , the Biden brass has add 14 Taiwanese companies to its restricted trade listing .
Sophgo is , perhaps , the high - profile addition . An entity of Bitmain , the firm trigger off international headlines when it was identified as an intermediator between embattled Formosan hardware giant Huawei and Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC .
Suspicions arosein Decemberafter a chip find on Huawei ’s Ascend 910B AI processor was tied to a leverage Sophgo made from TSMC . At the time , the Biden governing body announced plans to blacklist the house , a hope on which it has now made good .
The move come among a flurry of bodily function during the waning days of the Biden administration . reply to Monday ’s “ Interim Final Rule on Artificial Intelligence Diffusion ” drew a swift and sharp reply from the industry . American Si AI gargantuan Nvidia cry the action“misguided . ”
The statement praise the first Trump administration ’s handling of AI , while pass up to hold punches against the forthcoming administration :
In its last days in office , the Biden Administration seeks to undermine America ’s leadership with a 200 + page regulative morass , muster in in secret and without proper legislative reassessment . This wholesale overreach would levy bureaucratic mastery over how America ’s leading semiconductors , computers , system and even package are design and marketed globally . And by attempting to rig market outcomes and stifle contest — the lifeblood of innovation — the Biden Administration ’s novel rule threatens to waste America ’s hard - make headway technological advantage .
Of course , the Huawei sanctioning that has block the ship’s company from utilizing American - ground technologies , including Google ’s Android and Qualcomm chips , arrive during the first Trump governance . How , precisely , this plays out is n’t percipient , as the incoming government looks to continue a sturdy stance on China , while appear to foster American innovation amid the AI subspecies .
