Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
China is on the verge of cracking the US's advanced microchip monopoly.
Behind the scenes, Americans are panicking.
And that's why they issued an insane "order" last week, saying that NO ONE ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD (including China) is allowed to use the Huawei Ascend microchip.
The US has a long record of arguing that they have a legal right to control use or sales of anything anywhere in the world that may have an American element in its development history.
Here's the story. The US is keeping a tight hold on advanced microchips from Taiwan, China—including the super-powerful Nvidia chips necessary for AI.
So the Chinese company Huawei developed a way of linking less advanced chips together to replicate (and even beat) the computing power of the Nvidia chip, 300 petaflops to 180 petaflops.
Chinese nerds did this by using optical connections to make instantaneous transmission between 384 chips. The result was the CloudMatrix 384, which delivers MORE computing power than the top Nvidia chip.
But the US says that the Huawei chips inside it include elements, or chiplets, from TSMC in the Chinese province of Taiwan, and will make sure these are not available any more.
Now mainland China needs to develop its own chiplets, which won't be easy.
But top experts like William Huo (whose background is Intel Inc) say we should be rooting for China. That's because the US says it in this fight to maintain global AI dominance, while China will share the breakthrough with the world to create a fairer, safer planet.
Who will win this battle? Watch this space.
China is on the verge of cracking the US's advanced microchip monopoly.
Behind the scenes, Americans are panicking.
And that's why they issued an insane "order" last week, saying that NO ONE ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD (including China) is allowed to use the Huawei Ascend microchip.
The US has a long record of arguing that they have a legal right to control use or sales of anything anywhere in the world that may have an American element in its development history.
Here's the story. The US is keeping a tight hold on advanced microchips from Taiwan, China—including the super-powerful Nvidia chips necessary for AI.
So the Chinese company Huawei developed a way of linking less advanced chips together to replicate (and even beat) the computing power of the Nvidia chip, 300 petaflops to 180 petaflops.
Chinese nerds did this by using optical connections to make instantaneous transmission between 384 chips. The result was the CloudMatrix 384, which delivers MORE computing power than the top Nvidia chip.
But the US says that the Huawei chips inside it include elements, or chiplets, from TSMC in the Chinese province of Taiwan, and will make sure these are not available any more.
Now mainland China needs to develop its own chiplets, which won't be easy.
But top experts like William Huo (whose background is Intel Inc) say we should be rooting for China. That's because the US says it in this fight to maintain global AI dominance, while China will share the breakthrough with the world to create a fairer, safer planet.
Who will win this battle? Watch this space.
