Earlier this week, the U.S. government lifted its ban on shipments of AMD's Instinct MI308 and Nvidia's H20 processors for AI to Chinese entities, which pleased the companies, their Chinese customers, and investors. However, John Moolenaar (R), the head of a House of Representatives panel on China, has sent a formal letter to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick criticizing the move and requesting a briefing to discuss the decision and future actions of the executive branch. There is an interesting part: he does not call for a ban on the said GPUs again, but to develop a new set of rules.
"I could not agree more, which is why I strongly supported the administration's ban on H20 sales [to Chinese entities] — we must not allow U.S. companies to sell these vital artificial intelligence (AI) assets to Chinese entities," the letter signed by John Moolenaar on behalf of the panel reads. "The H20 chip significantly outperforms anything Chinese chipmakers like Huawei can currently produce, particularly in high-bandwidth memory — a critical factor for AI inference workloads."
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