> I wonder if they’re trying to get China “addicted” to western AI chips to hurt Chinese chip manufacturing development?

This has nothing to do with that. It was part of the deal made with China recently in Geneva. The U.S. needs what China has (rare metals), and China needs what the U.S. has (SOTA chips).

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happyopossum 5 days ago | parent [-]

> (rare metals in a place where nobody cares how they're harvested as opposed to the ones in North America that can't be mined due to ecological concerns)

There - that's a little more accurate.

	▲	jpgvm 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		It's really not just ecological concerns and tbh the mining really isn't that big of a deal. It's entirely the processing that is the problem, ecologically sure but mostly technically. Without the Chinese machines that do the processing because yes, you guessed it they are the only country in the world that makes most of them, you end up more than 20-30% less efficient. At that point on the world market you just aren't competitive at all. This is all assuming you can get past the NIMBYs to build the plants in the first place.