“The extreme ‘country cap’ policy will affect mainstream computers in countries around the world, doing nothing to promote national security but rather pushing the world to alternative technologies,” Ned Finkle, Nvidia’s vice president of government affairs, said in a statement.
Nvidia Corp criticised new chip export restrictions that are expected to be announced soon, saying the White House was trying to undercut the incoming Trump administration by imposing last-minute rules.
The looming changes, which Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, would cap the sale of US artificial intelligence (AI) chips on both a country and company basis — a move that would more tightly limit exports to most of the world. It’s part of a yearslong US effort to keep the latest technology away from China and Russia.
