Will the US Chip Ban Cripple China (and the World)?

The Biden administration's "small yard, high fence" strategy was designed to protect critical technologies while maintaining economic balance. But with sweeping semiconductor restrictions on China, has this philosophy gone too far? In this video, we explore the implications of these new tech policies, the backlash from companies like Nvidia and Intel, and the global consequences. Are these measures safeguarding U.S. national security, or are they risking economic and technological setbacks? Watch to find out how these restrictions are shaping the U.S.-China tech rivalry and what it means for the future of innovation.

🔗 Topics Covered:
- What is the "small yard, high fence" strategy?
- Breakdown of Biden's semiconductor restrictions
- Economic and global impacts
- Reactions from Nvidia, Intel, and other industry leaders

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Najma Minhas is Managing Editor, Global Village Space. She has worked with National Economic Research Associates (NERA) in New York, Lehman Brothers in London and Standard Chartered Bank in Pakistan. Before launching GVS, she worked as a consultant with World Bank, and USAID. Najma studied Economics at London School of Economics and International Relations at Columbia University, NewYork. she tweets at @MinhasNajma.

[AlexanderTheGreat-fr]

At first, the US banned the exports of 3nm and 5nm microchips to China in an effort to impede or put a brake on China's progress in developing advanced mobile phones. At that time, China could only produce 7nm and higher microchips
but had the problem of developing its own 5nm and 3nm microchips.

However, after a few years of thorough planning, research and development, China is now able to produce 5nm microchips.

China's leading chipmaker, SMIC, has built new production lines in Shanghai to manufacture 5nm mobile processors. 

China is also actively working on developing 3nm chips, with reports indicating that companies like Xiaomi have reached the design and "tape out" stage for a 3nm chip, signifying readiness for production.

Thus, the US's effort to stop China from developing advanced mobile phones has failed miserably.

Now the US is trying its best to hinder China's progress in Artificial Intelligence by halting exports of Nvidia's AI chips to China. This however is likely to fail also because Chinese technology giant Huawei and chipmaker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) are aiming to begin mass-production of China's most advanced homegrown artificial intelligence chip.

China's alternative to Nvidia's AI chips is the Ascend 910B chips, which Huawei claimed is on par with Nvidia's popular A100 chips, and which have become a top alternative in multiple industries across the country.

In addition, late last year, Alibaba and Chinese AI developer DeepSeek released reasoning models that, by some measures, rival OpenAI’s o1-preview. During the same period, Chinese videogame juggernaut Tencent unveiled Hunyuan-Large, an open-source model that the company’s testing found outperformed top open-source models developed in the U.S. across several benchmarks. Then, in the final days of 2024, DeepSeek released DeepSeek-v3, which now ranks highest among open-source AI on a popular online leaderboard and holds its own against top performing closed systems from OpenAI and Anthropic.

[smashsmash]

The Los Angles fire already give us that answer. If it was China, that fire would have been put out already. This shows how slow and inefficient the western world is.

[miketiong]

Sanctions of US chip export to China shall eventually curb zero purchase of US-products. This shall forced China to innovate aggressively

[Drzaheerkhan]

This is what rogue state do like the gangster leader.😢

[Voxabonable]

We laughed at and ridiculed the Chinese many times. Look at what all that inadvertently turned out.

[LiveStreamingHD]

Also try to make a video that why us is so obsessed with china. Why us want to limit china’s trade just like japan and using dollar as its weapon. Plz cover all these points

[charleswilson]

US TALKS ABOUT AI CHINA TALKS EAI. CATCH UP IF YOU CAN

[Aadiii]

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[AbdulAlvi-ci]

Thanks for sharing your analysis, always full of info...

[IrshadKhan-kwpr]

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Your style of speaking is mind blowing
The world's you usually using your videos is very simple and can be easily understandable

[ABA-xw]

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[scotch]

US paranoia regarding China is sometimes comical. How US regards its right to hegemony over all kinds of technologies is also very interesting. Also very apparent in this global world that this is not about being 'responsible' it is only about power over all else. Informative video!

[SalmanAhmed-pfkf]

Western world has some morality, principles and justice in their societies if we compare it to third world countries like Pakistan. But if you talk to US citizens, they are not happy, they feel like they are not getting their tax's worth, and maybe it is true. Western countries are founded on principles of freedom, justice and humanity. But capitalism can not go on forever although it has came a long way compared to communism and other systems. But now it feels like the power in these societies is starting to center in fewer hands by every passing decade. Looks like corruption and elitism has found its way into the power mechanism. Corporations are deciding everything. Although these countries would take a lot to crumble but the rise of China can accelerate it. If the West really wants to keep leading on the world, it should come back to the principles of humanity, true freedom and democracy where big corporations and lobbies have little to no say in the matters of fate of the nations.

[古德雍飛]

The two major markets for artificial intelligence are China and the United States.
Companies and countries using American technology (including American allies) will carefully consider the weaponization of any American technology products.

[jliang]

I think China has a long established path for its own semiconductor industry, they bought a lot of chips from the US in 2023 and 2024 that also provided them with time to sure up their own semiconductor industry in the next few years. Biden's chip restriction policy have proven to be reactive in nature rather than proactive, they tightened the chip restriction policy only after seeing Chinese companies breaking through each technical barrier, Chinese semiconductor industry also advances in their capacity in making semiconductors based on maturing technology and with even larger global share of the market. The Biden chip policy is failing in achieving the goal because it is not well planned and eventual result will be China will make GPU for not only its home base but also the rest of the world. Chip will be cheap as Chinese will tell you that the chip will be sold at Chinese cabbage price.

[distinctga]

South Korea and Taiwan and apart of the US led block initiating these restrictions. They have export restrictions on China as well.

[PanopticMan]

I believe this complete negation of free trade (established after ww2 with the pretext of a freer and open world). US's changing foreign and trade policy really begs the question weather the free trade model actually was inteded to be free when it is being dropped the moment is seems like such a policy might take the edge away and cost competitive advantage to US and its allies.

An interesting question one must ask here is whether this hypocritical approach to trade and diplomacy is costing the world peace and harmony. Can trust building measures be taken by US vis a vis China and Russia will all be important questions the incoming Trump Administration will have to answer.

Interesting watch. Thank you for keeping us informed.

[araara]

Palki Sharma, the fake news queen of India.

[lionkhan]

Najma mashallah you are glowing every day

[Ahmed-iygn]

Informative as always. If I may, it’s pronounced “ENVIDEA”