WASHINGTON, Oct 1 — Just over a month ago, a leading US technology firm made a rather mysterious announcement. Nvidia, which produces the world’s most advanced computer chips...
WASHINGTON, Oct 1 — Just over a month ago, a leading US technology firm made a rather mysterious announcement.
It’s very hard to develop AI without these, and they are also mostly produced by US-based companies, including current world leader Nvidia. Israel is another Middle Eastern country making major investments in AI. Almost all the world’s most advanced chipmakers are already working there. In fact, in 2020, Nvidia bought an Israeli company, Mellanox, and this subsidiary is now its largest base outside the US.Announcing the export restrictions, the US government said AI-enabling chips were “technologies that are force multipliers for military modernisation and human rights abuses.
In June this year, Reuters journalists reported on the underground trade in advanced chips in China. Chinese vendors said they often got the chips from companies registered in other countries, including India, Taiwan, and Singapore.This sort of leakage might also be a possibility in the Middle East, because the countries who are investing heavily in AI have also deepened their ties with China over the past five to 10 years.
“US officials are probably more worried that Nvidia chips are more exposed to espionage, reverse-engineering [when products are deconstructed to extract information] or unintentional transfer to Russia or China, given the latter two countries’ elevated presence in Gulf nations,” he suggested.Israel also has deepening ties to China. Huawei and Xiaomi both have research centres there and Chinese investors have funded venture capital firms that invest in local chip-makers.
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