So, with less than a week left in office, the current U.S. President Joe Biden has introduced new restrictions for the U.S. export of technologies and AI chips. The new set of U.S. guidelines will restrict the total number of artificial intelligence chips that are allowed to be exported to certain countries while allowing unlimited access to the AI chip technology for the country’s closest allies. By doing this the U.S. government wants to ensure the dominance of the United States over the global AI chip market.
According to the White House press release, this new set of U.S. guidelines aims to “provide clarity to allied and partner nations about how they can benefit from AI”. but even though they are bringing new benefits to the U.S. allies, these restrictions also introduce barriers for other countries globally.
"The U.S. leads AI now - both AI development and AI chip design, and it's critical that we keep it that way,", Gina Raimondo, the Commerce Secretary stated.
It’s important to mention that this new set of U.S. guidelines will split all the countries into three groups. The first group will include the United States' closest allies such as Japan and South Korea which will not have restrictions over the AI chip export. The second group made by the guidelines will include other countries such as Russia and China, which already are not able to purchase artificial intelligence chips. However, the last group includes the remaining countries which will be restricted in how many AI chips to buy, a maximum of 50,000 processing units for every country.
The U.S. guidelines are set to come into effect 120 days after the publication. So, it remains unknown if the recently elected U.S. President Donald Trump will implement the new set of rules for the three groups of countries.
Stay tuned to see if the major chip manufacturers will have concerns about these new U.S guidelines!
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