Trump’s new chip policy puts spotlight on Huawei’s secretive Ascend AI chips

Trump’s new chip policy puts spotlight on Huawei’s secretive Ascend AI chips

New guidelines under US President Donald Trump, which define the use of Huawei Technologies’ Ascend chips “anywhere in the world” as a violation of US export controls, have put a spotlight on the secretive products developed by the Chinese tech giant.

Huawei, a key player in China’s tech rivalry with the US, did not immediately respond to the new guidelines from the US Commerce Department, which explicitly singled out its Ascend chips after scrapping the Biden administration’s…

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