Comment by logicchains
2 days ago
Limiting US GPU exports to unaligned countries is completely counterproductive as it creates a market in those countries for Chinese GPUs, accelerating their development even faster. Because a mediocre Huawei GPU is better than no GPU. And it harms the revenue of US-aligned GPU companies, slowing their development.
Interesting theory. Any evidence that this is how the world really works? (And, is there a catchy name for the phenomenon?)
Import substitution. Before the free trade ideology it was quite a popular and (usually) deliberate method for industrialisation and technological progress.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Import_substitution_industri...
But also no external competition causes no pressure to improve.
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