Biden seeks to curb China's efforts to build artificial intelligence weapons with new bans on microchips

Growing US tensions with China have sparked a new push in Washington to reduce US dependence on East Asia — the global epicenter of semiconductor manufacturing — for vital microelectronics needed to build both conventional weapons and artificial intelligence algorithms.

US President Biden's December speech focused on touting a recently announced $40 billion investment in US microelectronics manufacturing and job creation. In 2026, the Taiwan Semiconductor Company will start manufacturing microelectronics in Arizona: 3nm chips. This is in addition to the roughly 20 000nm chips per month that TSMC intends to start manufacturing in Arizona next year.

But Biden's speech in Arizona did not mention the equally urgent measures the US government is taking to slow China's advance, including new restrictions that limit Beijing's access to these technologies.

In October, the Bureau of Industry and Security of the US Department of Commerce announced a wide array of export controls that severely limit China's ability to obtain some of the world's most advanced microchips. The bureau claimed that Beijing could use them to "produce advanced military systems," although these semiconductors are also used in civilian applications.

Commerce Department restrictions have forced the US to launch an offensive against China's ability to procure advanced microelectronics needed to achieve its long-term military modernization goals. Export controls prevent companies like TSMC from continuing to manufacture these sophisticated microchips in China.

China has set 2030 as its target date to become a world leader in artificial intelligence. And it is precisely this goal that American export controls intend to complicate it in every possible way. Typical American policy: to put a spoke in the wheel again, and not to engage in dialogue for mutually beneficial cooperation.

Now the US is introducing new bans, including on the transfer to companies connected in one way or another with China of technologies that allow them to establish the so-called laboratory production of high-frequency microcontrollers.

Although the US is no longer a major player in semiconductor manufacturing - something Biden hopes to fix - US companies still play a significant role in developing these chips and exporting the equipment needed to physically manufacture them. This gives the US some leverage in the global semiconductor supply chain.

Together, Washington says these restrictions are a serious blow to China's ability to manufacture the supercomputers needed to build AI algorithms.

However, most of the physical semiconductor manufacturing is still concentrated in East Asia, raising the possibility of a global economic crisis and problems for the US defense industrial base in the event of a war over Taiwan or anywhere else in the Asia-Pacific region.

Comments

[voice of reason]

The embargo against Japan before WWII led to Pearl Harbor. An embargo against China in the form of a ban on its own province from supplying products to the rest of the country could lead to an operation to retake Taiwan.

[Petr_Koldunov]

It would be nice, but ... nations are different. Japan is a warlike nation of samurai and kamikaze, with a wounded sense of national pride. China is a categorically pacifist country that will do everything and even more so as not to shoot at anyone.
I think that China will find a way to hurt the States and their slaves painfully, even without entering into a military conflict with them

[tralflot1832]

Something the AI ​​doesn't 100% win on a 64 cell battlefield.

[Ed1970]

But Tesla's autopilot is impressive. It remains to attach a cannon and send it for a walk ...

[Simple]

For "artificial intelligence" the data array on which it is trained is critical.

And China has more than the US, UK and EU combined.

And only then is the miniaturization of hardware, or in other words, the processing speed of this array

[rocket757]

Biden seeks to curb China's efforts to build artificial intelligence weapons with new bans on microchips

. The question is ... what will happen first, will China learn to do everything it needs to or will AmeriGa break down ???

[Bingo]

The Chinese have recently patented a new technology for the production of chips. And in general, the trade war with China began because the Chinese began to install processors of their own production on their flagship phone models, which "made" mattresses and Koreans ... So the result is clear in advance.
Yes, there is a simple trick - they could squeeze China - only by limiting the market. And the market inside China is equal to Europe + USA + Canada, who else will press)))

[rocket757]

China, this is complicated and not clear in many positions and cases.
However, based on the fact that they are for their interests in the first place, and secondarily, we can assume in which direction they are going, but in what ways??? It's hard to figure it out.

[AVA77]

Some information about China.
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[Architect]

In general, in a decent society, videos are posted with a description of the content.

[KCA]

In Russia and China, there are very good successes in creating quantum computers, there, for a long time, you don’t need much and a process of 7 microns, 90 microns is enough, and more, but the states are in the ass, quantum telephony has been working at Moscow State University for 3 years , state-owned companies are already buying at hellish prices, but it’s impossible to open it, and qubits are constantly connected to our computers one by one

[poquello]

Quote: KCA

In Russia and China, there are very good successes in creating quantum computers, there, for a long time, you don’t need much and a process of 7 microns, 90 microns is enough, and more, but the states are in the ass, quantum telephony has been working at Moscow State University for 3 years , state-owned companies are already buying at hellish prices, but it’s impossible to open it, and qubits are constantly connected to our computers one by one

quantum technologies are considered the future of electronics, over time the US and the EU will move into the status of backward countries in this area, they slept through this technological revolution

[KCA]

They slept for a very long time, in the USSR in the 60s the Setun computer was mass-produced with a 3-bit account, all fashionable x86, x64, x128 is the usual two-digit account 0/1, just with many streams,
0/1/or a completely different matter, mass production was stopped, but there is no development, and the qubits are close to 0/1/or, then the three-bit count speeded up the decryption dozens of times, qubits, from the number a million/billion times faster, more qubits tightly impossible to read the transmitted data

[evgen1221]

Asml from Holland against the background of energy from Europe will be transported to their place and will be in chocolate. How long is unknown, most likely Chinese and American technologies will develop in parallel, closed from each other.

[Anton Boldakov]

The United States has already completed its production - in Russia they began to assemble machines for the production of household chips (and new sanctions threaten to speed up this process very much). Not without reason, American chip and software manufacturers suddenly abandoned sanctions against Russia. This year, Intel Pentium has waived all sanctions against Russia.

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: Anton Boldakov

The USA has already completed

US President Biden's December speech focused on touting a recently announced $40 billion investment in US microelectronics manufacturing and job creation.

Can you imagine - to add brains to the money ... Nobody would have caught up with America and would not have surpassed it!

If the money stuffed in"black ass "black hole" called "Ukraine", send it to where Grandpa has now promised 40 lard - then "microelectronics production in the USA" would ALREADY be established, and "new jobs" would ALREADY be created.

[Fangaro]

The US is not currently the largest chip manufacturer. But they are still leading the way in development. And they can put pressure, both economically and politically, on other countries where there are both developers and manufacturers that have been debugged for decades. Unfortunately.

[mr wolf]

Quote: Peter_Koldunov

It would be nice, but ... nations are different. Japan is a warlike nation of samurai and kamikaze, with a wounded sense of national pride.

I would not idealize the "national pride" of the samurai nation, because this pride does not prevent meticulously licking the Anglo-Saxon spectacle zone, despite the demonstrative destruction of their peaceful cities, and not on the basis of military expediency, but in order to show Stalin that they have some what...

[belovvladimir]

Fashington’s message that, they say, you will transfer your production to the USA, and then we don’t need you in the fig, because the money should work for the US economy and not for Asia and export from Asia, in a word, an American scam!

[Drent]

China is making efforts to produce their own chips and I believe in some years they will be able to do this.