How China gets the Nvidia chips it needs to develop AI

Tokyo Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has admitted to having an affair, reportedly with a Chinese executive at a Singapore-based company that the United States suspects of smuggling AI microchips into China. The scandal has focused attention on how China, a major artificial-intelligence power in itself, obtains the cutting-edge chips despite US export restrictions. Untangling Nvidia chief Jensen Huang’s Chinese spy connection Untangling Nvidia chief Jensen Huang’s Chinese spy connection Nvidia said that it was investigating its chief, Mr.

Huang, after he told the board he had been intimate with a customer, Alice Huang, whom U.S. intelligence determined was a Chinese spy, per a report by New York Times News Analysis Untangling Nvidia chief Jensen Huang’s Chinese spy connection storyline 1 Why are Nvidia chips so important? Nvidia designs advanced components originally created to handle 3D visuals in video games, called Graphics Processing Units (GPUs).

These have the power to crunch colossal amounts of digital data, so are also used at scale to train and run artificial intelligence.