Latest U.S. Chip Curbs Deliver Setback to China’s AI Ambitions

SINGAPORE—U.S. restrictions on gross sales of Nvidia high-end processors to China throw a wrench in Beijing’s ambitions to lead in synthetic intelligence, as Chinese officers accused the U.S. of monopolizing superior applied sciences.

The curbs reduce off China’s largest tech corporations from among the world’s most superior chips. Nvidia’s affected clients embody Alibaba Group Holding the web big that operates China’s largest cloud service enterprise, and Tencent Holdings the gaming and social media behemoth. Both promote cloud companies powered by Nvidia chips which might be able to crunching enormous quantities of information for superior purposes from autonomous factories to video processing.