“The Chinese military—no different [than] the American military—will not seek each other’s technology out to be built on top of,” since each country could cut off the other’s access to the hardware, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said. China already hosts a lot of computing capacity, he added. (CNN)
Talking point: Huang is in China this week, at least his second visit this year. Nvidia has said new U.S. restrictions on sales of its chips to Chinese customers will cost the firm billions, and it’s opposed previous efforts to limit the international spread of cutting-edge hardware. “We want the American tech stack to be the global standard,” Huang said Monday, drawing a parallel to the U.S. dollar’s role as the international reserve currency. To do that, he said the U.S. must ensure its hardware is available to Chinese developers. The Trump administration has signalled it wants other countries to use U.S.-made AI and hardware, but still wants to contain China’s development of the technology.