"The chips needed to develop cutting-edge AI are the most valuable pieces of hardware on Earth, and the best chips Chinese firms can produce lag about five years behind the top end of the market."
"The new order would attempt to close that back door. It could also further divide the world along technological lines, with some countries likely getting unfettered access to U.S. tech and others facing limitations."
"The fact that Chinese firms would 'opt into a supply chain that involved putting chips in suitcases and smuggling them' is a clear sign of the Western edge in chipmaking."
"The CEO of one of China's leading AI firms, DeepSeek, said this month that his primary constraint was not the vast sums needed for AI development, but access to high-end chips."
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