Lol. Lmao.
In the funniest timeline, the US nationalizes Nvidia to delay China from making chips that work well with LLM’s… by a year tops.
Link to original Fortune article the PC Gamer article pulled from, with this juicy relevant quote:
To do that, Raimondo said the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security, which manages export controls for the US, needs more funding from Congress.
“I have a $200 million budget. That’s like the cost of a few fighter jets. Come on,” she said. “If we’re serious, let’s go fund this operation like it needs to be funded.”
I don’t know anything about microchips but this reminds me of ‘we’ve got a 15 year head start on the Soviets building nukes’ kind of thing. China’s a superpower, if they want to get it done they’ll get it done. They have effectively limitless resources they can throw at priorities and they have enormous intelligence capabilities (didn’t Trump boast about some giant fucking box he had to go stand in when he didn’t want China listening to his communications?)