Due to U.S. sanctions, China’s competitiveness in the AI ecosystem is rapidly declining.
The international academic journal Nature states that China’s development of AI technology is being hindered due to the U.S. ban on selling high-end chips to the country.
To counter this, China has developed the “Ascend 910B” AI chip, but its performance is significantly inferior to the widely used NVIDIA H100.
Ahmed Banafa, a professor at San Jose State University, said, “China is at least 5 to 10 years behind the U.S.”
Experts believe, “China will struggle with AI development for some time because the hardware gap cannot be bridged overnight.”
Since last year, the U.S. has tightened semiconductor export controls, prohibiting the sale of semiconductors to China that can process more than 300 trillion operations per second.
As a result, China has to use low-end graphics processing units (GPUs) developed by NVIDIA or use gaming GPUs to develop AI.
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