A Tuesday Bloomberg report quotes folks familiar with the matter as saying AMD cooked up an AI chip that falls well short of its most sophisticated silicon in hope that it would fall beneath the threshold at which US authorities would not allow exports to China without first granting a licence.
China is a colossal market - we know it has at least five million datacenter racks in production with more coming online all the time - and this week the local market probably expanded, as Beijing outlined a plan to make AI a centerpiece of its economic development strategy.
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