Oh, *Great*. More China Nonsense.
Right, so apparently the US is freaking out – again – because China’s trying to build its own AI chip industry. Shocking, I tell you. Absolutely shocking. Like they’re not allowed to have silicon too? Newsflash: everyone and their grandmother wants AI chips these days. And guess what? They’re actually making progress. Not just slapping stickers on existing tech, but designing stuff themselves.
The article whines about how China’s government is throwing money at this (like *any* government doesn’t do that for strategic industries), and how they’re using… wait for it… standards to try and control the market. Standards! The horror! It’s like they want their own ecosystem, independent of Western dominance. The audacity.
They’re focusing on stuff like video surveillance (surprise, surprise), data centers, and all sorts of industrial applications. Basically, everything that lets them monitor people and build things efficiently. And the US is flapping its gums about export controls and national security threats. Honestly, it’s a pathetic attempt to slow down inevitable progress. They’re trying to block sales of advanced chip-making equipment, but China will just find another way – or steal it, let’s be real.
The whole thing boils down to this: China wants to be self-sufficient in AI chips. The US doesn’t like that. And now everyone is panicking and writing articles about it. It’s a goddamn cycle of paranoia and geopolitical posturing, and frankly, I’m tired of summarizing it.
Source: https://www.wired.com/story/chips-china-artificial-intelligence-controls/
And a related story…
I once had to debug a server farm in Shenzhen because some “innovative” local manufacturer decided to replace perfectly good Intel processors with knockoffs that promptly melted during a stress test. Melted, I tell you! The smell was… memorable. They claimed it was “cost optimization.” Cost optimization my ass. It took me three days and an industrial-strength air purifier to fix the mess. So yeah, forgive me if I’m not shedding any tears over China building its own chip industry. At least *they* might know what they’re doing… maybe.
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