Before officially leaving office, US President Biden signed aNew laws to regulate artificial intelligence chips, will impose global export restrictions on American-made artificial intelligence chips to prevent competitors such as China from posing a threat by obtaining advanced American technology.
The new law is called the "Final Rule on Artificial Intelligence Diffusion" and divides the export scope of US-made artificial intelligence chips into three levels, including partners and allies, as well as those previously explicitly prohibited from exporting to, and new regulations added to most countries. This is to prevent certain countries from circumventing export restrictions and indirectly obtaining advanced US-made artificial intelligence chip products and related technologies.
The 18 countries and regions listed as first-tier partners and allies, such as Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, India, and Germany, are basically unaffected. Countries and regions listed as third-tier, such as China and Russia, are already on the export restriction list. Therefore, the main affected countries and regions are those listed as second-tier countries and regions that were not previously subject to many restrictions. The actual measures taken include setting an upper limit on the computing power that can be purchased, or making additional applications based on demand, but this will obviously put these countries and regions under more scrutiny pressure when they subsequently purchase artificial intelligence chips.
As for the restrictions imposed on more countries and regions classified as the second level, the maximum purchase limit is 5 sets of high-end artificial intelligence chips. If these countries and regions maintain the same position as the United States on technological security and renewable energy goals, they can apply to increase the purchase limit to 10 sets.
Even specific national agencies can apply for additional funds to purchase up to 2 high-end artificial intelligence chips within two years, but there will still be a cap on the overall deployment of artificial intelligence computing power.
However, this new law has been criticized by many technology companies, who believe that it will affect the competitiveness of the United States.
