[HarHarVeryFunny]

Just in case you are interested in any facts ...

The Trump administration, having first blocked China from buying NVIDIA H100's, has since done a U-turn and is now allowing them to buy the more powerful NVIDIA H200, on a case-by-case basis.

Now, the CHINESE government is blocking Chinese companies from buying these H200s, at least in part because it turns out that being denied US tech has been a great accelerator for Chinese tech, with Huawei now producing the entirely domestic Ascend 950 chip, which according to NVIDIA's Jensen Huang performs about the same as NVIDIA's own H100 (which while not NVIDIA's most powerful is still plenty capable, and is what Elon Musk's Colossus-1 data center mostly uses, currently being rented out to Anthropic).

[hereme888]

H100 export licensing restrictions began on August 26, 2022, under the Biden administration.

The CCP tried to promote their own chips, but later regressed and started allowing ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent to purchase more than 400,000 H200s. And they are trying to acquire millions.

Thus, export restrictions accelerated Chinese substitution, but also made that substitution slower, costlier, less scalable, and technically inferior to unrestricted Nvidia access.

> According to Jensen Huang, Ascend 950 performs about the same as H100

Source?

[bigyabai]

It's been great. I hope they keep importing them, Qwen and Z.ai have done far more for humanity with that compute than Anthropic or OpenAI ever did.