• Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    Chinese companies are heavily incentivized to use Chinese chips instead of American since Trump blocked trade with China.
    China used to parallel import the chips they needed, and even repackage them with more onboard RAM, making more powerful Nvidia solutions available in China than in the rest of the world.
    But Trumps behavior towards China made the Chinese government decide to limit the use of American technologies for AI.
    There was a point where Nvidia exports to China was basically at a standstill, because China forbade the purchase of a new cut down Nvidia chip made for the Chinese market to circumvent American trade restrictions.

    China is building their own complete stack now, replacing everything with Chinese technologies, right from the AI chips to the entire AI software framework.

    So not only does Nvidia and other American companies lose hardware sales, the entire stack will be threatened with a Chinese alternative, that will likely compete with American options on the international market in the future. If Cuda loses its current dominance, it will be easier for competitors to take marketshare from Nvidia.

    Hopefully this will be good for consumers worldwide.

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      Please do i can’t be so wet. European are eager to ditch Americans. In the long run Chinese seem to a be a more reliable partner

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        I would prefer it wasn’t like this, PAX Americana seemed to work quite well for several decades, of course USA served their own interests, but they they also provided a somewhat stable world order with a decent degree of freedom.
        Now they have abandoned the ideals of freedom and democracy and international law, to serve their own interests exclusively at immense cost to others, without regard for either law or decency. and of course that is not sustainable to be an ally of.
        I think USA will soon find that without allies, their power isn’t so great after all.

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          You are talking about freedom and peace, but only for the global north.

          It wasn’t like that for rest of the world.

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          They were infiltrated by Epstein dlasses assets and a t fucked the system. At this time look at the tax rate of these deep fucks.

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              5 months ago

              For a short période rich fucker were taxed enough. They are still the fact that the grow of capitalist country where sustained by colonized country ressources.

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      5 months ago

      I dont know how much of this is sensationalist peddle, but there’s a barely disguised advert for entrepreneurs by a YouTube channel called Statrys that mentions China’s plan to destroy the competition by doing what a dictatorship not held back by bureaucracy does best; investing fucktons of money into the industries. Link

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        5 months ago

        IDK about destroying the competition, but investing a fuckton of money on education research and infrastructure is what they’ve done for 50 years, originally to catch up, now to gain technological independence from USA limiting their access to technologies like AASML despite it’s a Dutch company, and even limiting their ability to use TSMC manufacturing despite it’s a Taiwanese company.

        There is no doubt that to achieve a self sustained economy, China needs to be competitive in ALL areas, otherwise USA will use it to hold them back.