US Department of US (DOJ) say On Tuesday if two citizens are held by unauthorized involvement illegal Shipment “tens of millions of dollars” high AI chips for China.
The doj says Chuan Gang and Siwei is captured in California on August 2 and honored with the export reform Act, which brings the biggest punishment of 20 years in prison.
The gang and accidentally sends “sensitive technology,” including the GPU, to China from the US through California based company, Alx solution.
The doj is not a company name that ALX chips are alx allegedly tortured, but stuck complaints, so the chip is “designed specifically for application AI.” The description makes the chance of compiled chip created by Nvidia. A Report by Reuters Specifically named Nvidia’s H100 GPUs as a chips sent.
Reviews of export documents by the Doj discovering the solution of Alx sent chips and technology for the measured and Malaysia and the payment of Hong Kong and China’s payment. The department also discovers communication records about tech shipping to Malaysia specially for the US Export.
“This case shows that smuggling is unfamiliar,” Nvidia’s spokesman said in a statement. “We are mainly selling products to the well-known partners, including OEM, which helps us to make sure that all sales complies with review control and researchers will not have services, support, or updates.”
The news is the US trying to find out how to attack the innovation Ai Global and apply export limitations for China, which are many in the west, which is considered a major threat in ai race. A trump is recently announced Plan ai ai The importance of having export limitations, but lightly on the details.
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One potential solution to spray smuggling chip who has been suggested by the US government in the present apply for tracking technology to be chip To help hold smuggling, but chipmers are quite opposed to the movement of suchs.
In a Post a blog on TuesdayNVIDIA says GPU does not include kill or retreat, and arguing the building on the tool will only produce compromised security.
“NVIDIA has designed for more than 30 years. Embed with switch to the chips will be a gift of hackers,” said the company, “You will damage the US technology in the US technology. The wisely profitly reapment requires a company to fix the vulnerability – not making it. “
“This is not a policy of sound. This is an overreaction that will be harmful interest and American security security,” write nvidia.
NVIDIA does not directly return additional requests.
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