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"We Can't Let China Get These Chips, Period": US Commerce Secretary

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Charles Rollet
•Dec 08, 2023

The US has passed strict export controls on selling semiconductors to the PRC.

However, NVIDIA still sells lots of chips to China by designing custom versions that fall just below the performance thresholds.

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Charles Rollet
•Dec 08, 2023

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Robert Shih
•Dec 08, 2023
Independent

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