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Re:US gov fires a warning shot at Nvidia by ilaksh on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @05:14AM (#38528985)
What's the ultimate goal that the US has in denying these chips? It's just strategically to slow down the military and other development of China, right?

Or are they hoping that China will give in to some political demand?

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Re:US gov fires a warning shot at Nvidia by DeathArrow on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @06:03AM (#38529398)
>It's just strategically to slow down the military and other development of China, right?

Not really. It is to hinder the economic and technological development of China.

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Re:US gov fires a warning shot at Nvidia by rhdunn on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @05:20AM (#38529065)
Preventing China for using these chips for AI. So they cannot be used for things like LLMs, or possibly in espionage such as generating fake images, video, and audio.
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Re:US gov fires a warning shot at Nvidia by hackerlight on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @05:27AM (#38529119)
> It's just strategically to slow down the military and other development of China, right?

Probably this. Many in the foreign policy establishment expect a war with China within 10 years.

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Re:US gov fires a warning shot at Nvidia by snovv_crash on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @05:46AM (#38529262)
They only need to postpone China's military tech development until their demographic issues catch up with them. At that point China won't have the luxury of being expansionist and will need to settle down to take care of its aging population.
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Re:US gov fires a warning shot at Nvidia by hackerlight on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @11:35PM (#38552870)
That's right. In the super long-run steady state, what matters is population size (along with wealth and industrial production). If the US can maintain the status quo of the US having a slightly bigger economy, and just buy time for the US population to grow via immigration while the Chinese population declines, then eventually the world will be back to the geopolitical reality of the 2000s with a unipolar world with the US on top. China will still have revisionist and irredentist intent but won't be capable of carrying it out, and the US policy of containment will be successful.
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