Speaking during an interview with CNN, Huang addressed the issue of China using Nvidia chips for military purposes, assuring people that „we don’t have to worry about.
What just happened? The US has long banned the export of Nvidia’s top AI chips to China, mainly due to the concern that they will be used for military purposes in the country. Team Green CEO Jensen Huang thinks it’s all a fuss over nothing – because China’s military can’t rely on US-made technology.
Speaking during an interview with CNN, Huang addressed the issue of China using Nvidia chips for military purposes, assuring people that „we don’t have to worry about it.“
The US government does worry about it, though. It blocks – or requires a hard-to-obtain export licence for – high-end Nvidia GPUs when the destination is China (mainland, Hong Kong or Macau). Any GPU which has a total processing performance × interconnect speed of more than around 4,800 TB/s falls into the banned category.
The primary reason for these restrictions is the concern that China could use the chips for military applications. Huang, however, said this is unlikely because „they simply can’t rely on it.
