By Brian Shilhavy
The Information (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/china-tells-tech-companies-halt-nvidia-h200-chip-orders) just reported that China is not allowing their Tech companies to import Nvidia’s powerful AI chips this week:
The Chinese government this week asked some tech companies to temporarily halt plans to buy Nvidia’s H200 AI chips, according to two people involved in the communication, throwing up a possible roadblock in Nvidia’s hopes of restarting chip sales to one of its biggest markets.
The instruction came roughly a month after President Donald Trump said he would allow Nvidia to sell H200s to China, marking the biggest rollback of Biden-era export restrictions. At the time, the reaction of the Chinese government was uncertain, as the government had been pushing local companies to buy locally made chips as a way of supporting the Chinese chip industry.
This week Chinese officials told companies to suspend purchase orders while the government decides on whether—and under what conditions—it will allow access to the high-performance Nvidia chips, the people said.
It remains unclear what prompted Beijing’s directive. A few days ago, the U.S. arrested Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and transported him to the U.S. for trial on drug trafficking charges. There are signs that Maduro’s departure could hurt China’s ability to import crude oil from the Latin American country.
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This morning Trump told Venezuela to stop exporting oil to China. It is unclear if he has the means to enforce this yet, as Maduro’s regime is still in tact. China is also probably waiting to see if this can be enforced, hence the halt of importing Nvidia’s chips.
If the U.S. is successful in blocking oil from Venezuela to China, expect a reciprocal response from China, and that could possibly be cutting off the supply of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company’s chips from shipping to the U.S. by using military force in Taiwan, such as controlling their airports and putting up a naval blockade, because that is where Nvidia gets their chips from in the first place!
Meanwhile, the U.S. just seized that oil tanker flying the Russian flag. Russia had sent a nuclear submarine to the area, but it is not clear if it is there yet.
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The Trump regime is playing a very dangerous game. I don’t think that this is going to go the way that the Trump regime intends. But that is just my guess. And there ain’t no need for anyone to think that we here in the US, can make powerful AI chips. We are barely intelligent enough to make toilet tissue to wipe our asses!
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According to a panel I heard recently, Shelby, the neocon think tanks that run US foreign policy have this fantasy that the US is going to take over the entire Western hemisphere, destroy Putin, replace him with a pro-US millennial, take over Russia and form a US-Russian coalition to go to war with China. While it’s a pipe dream, it’s theoretically possible if you accept the collateral damage it will cause most Americans.
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