“A beneficial, harmful Lord.” America’s sanctions prompted China to solve the chip dilemma

While the two major countries are competing economically, it seems that the United States is losing its race with China in the field of technology and technical development.

On the principle of “a good, harmful God”, the US sanctions prompted Chinese technology companies to accelerate research in order to develop artificial intelligence without relying on the latest American electronic chips, according to the “Wall Street Journal”.

China bears US sanctions

Companies are studying methods that allow them to achieve the best and latest performance of artificial intelligence with fewer or less powerful semiconductors.

It has also begun looking into how to combine different types of chips to avoid dependence on one type of device. Telecoms firm Huawei Technologies, research firm Baidu and e-commerce giant Alibaba Group are among companies seeking more performance from the device. already existing computer chips.

And she believed, quoting researchers and analysts, that if this research succeeds, it will allow Chinese technology companies to withstand US sanctions, and make them more flexible in the face of future restrictions.

The report also indicated that US sanctions are motivating Chinese technology companies to accelerate research to develop advanced artificial intelligence without relying on the latest US chips.

In turn, artificial intelligence researcher Susan Zhang considered that China should encourage innovation in the development of general artificial intelligence, after the US Department of Commerce imposed comprehensive restrictions on the supply of chips to Beijing last October.

In parallel, Chinese companies have sought to use various software techniques to reduce the computational intensity of training large-scale AI models, an approach that has recently accelerated globally, including among US companies.

The papers show that unlike US companies, Chinese companies have been much more daring in combining multiple software technologies together.

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While many of these methods are still ironed out in the global research community and difficult to implement, Chinese researchers have seen some success.

America and China, the two largest economic powers in the world, are wrestling politically over several files, and economically as well.

While the race in the field of science and technology occupies the most important role in this hidden struggle.