US lawmakers angry after Huawei unveils laptop with new Intel AI chip

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"One such license, issued by the Trump administration, has allowed Intel to ship central processors to Huawei for use in laptops since 2020. China hardliners had urged the Biden administration to revoke that license, but many grudgingly accepted that it would expire later this year and not be renewed.

Huawei's unveiling Thursday of its first AI-enabled laptop, the MateBook X Pro powered by Intel's new Core Ultra 9 processor, shocked and angered them, because it suggested to them that the Commerce Department had approved shipments of the new chip to Huawei."

US lawmakers angry after Huawei unveils laptop with new Intel AI chip

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican U.S. lawmakers on Friday criticized the Biden administration after sanctioned Chinese telecoms equipment giant Huawei unveiled a laptop this week powered by an Intel AI chip. The United States placed Huawei on a trade restriction list in 2019 for violating Iran...

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[Fred Chen]

"One such license, issued by the Trump administration, has allowed Intel to ship central processors to Huawei for use in laptops since 2020. China hardliners had urged the Biden administration to revoke that license, but many grudgingly accepted that it would expire later this year and not be renewed.

Huawei's unveiling Thursday of its first AI-enabled laptop, the MateBook X Pro powered by Intel's new Core Ultra 9 processor, shocked and angered them, because it suggested to them that the Commerce Department had approved shipments of the new chip to Huawei."

US lawmakers angry after Huawei unveils laptop with new Intel AI chip

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican U.S. lawmakers on Friday criticized the Biden administration after sanctioned Chinese telecoms equipment giant Huawei unveiled a laptop this week powered by an Intel AI chip. The United States placed Huawei on a trade restriction list in 2019 for violating Iran...

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It should be a big deal, this is Meteor Lake, with all the advanced chiplets.

 

[Brady]

Really, what's the risk here? That Chinese consumers get access to consumer-grade AI inferencing capabilities? Or is this just typical nationalistic chest thumping? It's not as though these could be use for foundation model training, or that selling these in China would somehow make the design/tech available to reverse engineering any more than they already are today.

Meh. Allowing Intel to sell to China consumers only helps Intel, a US company. So... again, what are we even talking about here?

 

[TBiggs]

Decades ago we had the red scare and communist scare.

Today we still got our fear, how insecure the white ruling class is.

 

[delong.height]

if any sanction is necessary, US government need to pay Intel, Nvidia, AMD, and Qualcomm a hefty fee for any national-level issue that prohibit any sell to China . Jesus Christ.

This become commonplace these days, and it shouldn't really be tolerable without a price that all stakeholders are agreed upon. And as a shareholder of many of these chip companies. Why do shareholders have to pay the price for national issue?

This just feels so wrong with how stakeholders are treated so unfairly and have to swallow the cost.

 

[tooLongInEDA]

if any sanction is necessary, US government need to pay Intel, Nvidia, AMD, and Qualcomm a hefty fee for any national-level issue that prohibit any sell to China . Jesus Christ.

This become commonplace these days, and it shouldn't really be tolerable without a price that all stakeholders are agreed upon. And as a shareholder of many of these chip companies. Why do shareholders have to pay the price for national issue?

This just feels so wrong with how stakeholders are treated so unfairly and have to swallow the cost.

Part of being a shareholder is assessing and accepting the risks of the company and business in question.

It is hardly news or unexpected that the US has export control regulations and that these apply to companies like Intel and are subject to change.

This should be a useful lesson to any naive shareholders out there.

One of the biggest problems with the world economy over the past few decades has been the US-originated "Greenspan put" whereby the Fed (largely acting as a proxy for the US government) bails out shareholders/the stock market whenever things look a bit dicey. Thereby simply postponing the necessarily learning and correction/creative destruction of a normally functioning economy. This has simply stored up a massive backlog of problems that will eventually break out.