The United States warns of using Huawei chips anywhere in the world “

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President Donald Trump’s administration has taken a tougher position in Chinese technological advances, warning companies around the world that the use of Huawei’s artificial intelligence chips could trigger criminal penalties to violate the US export controls.

The Department of Commerce issued guidance to clarify that Huawei’s Ascend to processors They were subject to export controls because they almost certainly contained or were made with North -American technology.

His Bureau of Industry and Security, which oversees export controls, said on Tuesday that he was announcing reinforced rules for foreign AI chips, including “emitting guidance that the use of Huawei ascends chips anywhere in the world violates the US export controls.”

People who knew the matter emphasized that the office had not published a new rule, but was making it clear to companies that Huawei chips have probably violated a measure that requires difficult licenses to obtain to export American technology to Chinese company.

“Orientation is not a new control, but a public confirmation of an interpretation that even the simple use of anyone in an advanced computer science designed by Huawei (integrated circuit) would violate the rules of export control,” said Kevin Wolf, a veteran Akin Gump’s export control lawyer.

The Bureau said that three Huawei Ascend chips (910B, 910C and 910D) were subject to the regulations, emphasizing that these chips have been likely to have been “designed with certain United States programs or technology or produced with semiconductor manufacturing equipment that are direct products of certain American programs or technology, or both.”

Orientation occurs as the United States has increasingly concerned about the speed at which Huawei has developed advanced chips and other AI hardware.

Huawei has begun to deliver AI chip “clusters” For Customers in China who claims that it exceeds the comparable product of U.S. NVIDIA chip chips on key metric metrics, such as total calculation and memory. The system is based on a large number of chips of 910C, which are individually less than the most advanced offer of Nvidia, but collectively they offer a performance higher than a rival product of Nvidia cluster.

The Shenzhen -based conglomerate currently offers its Ascend series processors, mainly 910b and 910C, to Chinese companies. Huawei increases production capacity by building its own advanced semiconducting production lines, as Chinese -cut from Nvidia products increase orders.

There is a growing concern of the United States that the China National Champion will soon sell AI processors in both China and foreign markets that can compete with nvidia and other products from North -American companies.

Nvidia’s head, Jensen Huang, said that last month Huawei was “one of the most formidable technology companies in the world” and that U.S. policies should help their company compete in the global scenario.

Nvidia refused to comment on the new office rules. Huawei did not respond immediately to a comment request.

The Department of Commerce too rescinded the AI ​​broadcast rule On Tuesday, a measure that the previous Biden administration had planned would take effect on May 15.

It was designed to limit the exports of IA chips to other countries and to make China difficult to eluding the exporting controls of the United States. But the department said that the rule was too bureaucratic (a vision of the former Biden officials rejects) and that it would issue a replacement in the future.

The announcement came the day Trump visited Saudi Arabia, where he made known a series of offers, including a kingdom’s commitment New II of State Property Company, Humain, to build AI infrastructure with hundreds of thousands of Nvidia chips.

A family source with the situation said that the stairs of the proposed golf treatment shocked many senior officials of the Trump administration. They were worried about the AI ​​infrastructure on a large scale, and also focused on the collaborations of the Arab Emirates and the Erabes with Beijing.

Michael Acton’s additional reports in San Francisco