[By Guancha Network, Wang Yi] Since DeepSeek's stunning debut and shocking the world at the beginning of this year, the United States has been trying every means to suppress DeepSeek in order to curb China's development in artificial intelligence technology.

According to a report by The New York Times on April 16, the US government plans to "take multiple measures" to ban DeepSeek from purchasing American technology, prohibit Americans from using its technology, and cut off chip supply to this company from American chip manufacturer NVIDIA.

On the same day, the US House of Representatives' Special Committee on China released a report filled with hackneyed accusations, claiming that DeepSeek "censors and manipulates information," "leaks data to China," and "poses security vulnerabilities to users," constituting a "grave threat" to American security.

This report, which began to be written in February, illogically claims that this threat to American security was generated through stealing American technology and used banned American chips exported to China.

Under this set of absurd logic, the "Special Committee on China" launched an investigation into NVIDIA's chip sales in Asia on the same day, attempting to assess whether NVIDIA violated US regulations by intentionally providing key technologies for developing artificial intelligence to DeepSeek. An unnamed committee official told The New York Times that NVIDIA needs to respond to the investigation within two weeks; the committee usually takes four months to conduct investigations before generating reports and holding hearings.

The New York Times reported that the Trump administration also plans to take action this week to further restrict NVIDIA's sales of artificial intelligence chips to China and other countries, and they are still looking for ways to enforce the broad export control measures for artificial intelligence chips announced by former President Biden before leaving office.

On local time April 16, Trump claimed it was his re-election and tariffs that made NVIDIA decide to manufacture all its AI supercomputers entirely in the US. Video screenshot.

The article pointed out that the suppression of DeepSeek and NVIDIA stems from Washington's concern that China may surpass the United States in the field of artificial intelligence, which is detrimental to US national security and geopolitical influence.

Klon Kitchen, a senior researcher at the American Enterprise Institute specializing in national security and technology, analyzed that the current US artificial intelligence strategy is to use its leading advantage in manufacturing artificial intelligence chips and system construction to "persuade" countries to ally with it.

However, the groundless suppression of Chinese artificial intelligence by the United States has severely disrupted the semiconductor industry. Due to the US government's restrictions on NVIDIA's exports of the customized H20 chip to China starting last week, NVIDIA warned on the 15th that they would face losses of $5.5 billion. Another American chip manufacturer, AMD, also stated that their sales would lose billions of dollars. ASML, a Dutch semiconductor equipment manufacturer, admitted on the 16th that their equipment orders fell short of expectations.

On the 16th, the stock prices of the three companies fell by more than 5%.

Since 2022, the US government has continuously introduced restrictive measures, tightening its export controls on Chinese chips step by step. The previous Biden administration announced the most stringent chip export control measures covering the global range before leaving office. After the new Trump administration took office in January this year, it also declared that it would further restrict American chip exports to China.

In January this year, DeepSeek emerged, and its low-cost, high-performance artificial intelligence system shocked the tech industry and made the US government even more uneasy.

"The announcement of DeepSeek has come as a complete surprise to everyone, as it indicates that the core of American policy is about to be disrupted," Kitchen exclaimed.

Commerce Secretary Lutnik previously claimed that the US should stop allowing Chinese companies to compete with us using American technology including NVIDIA. In March, Lutnik further warned at an industry executive meeting that the Trump administration would "significantly strengthen" restrictions on American technology to China, including imposing fines on companies.

On April 9, the US Department of Commerce notified NVIDIA that the customized H20 chip developed for the Chinese market would require an export license from the US government to be sold. On the 14th, the Department of Commerce informed NVIDIA again that this regulation would be implemented indefinitely.

Technology companies have strongly opposed these export control measures, stating that they threaten America's business globally and its technological influence.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang has consistently opposed restrictions on exports to China. Last May, he stated in a conference call that NVIDIA will continue to do its utmost to serve customers in the Chinese market and will strive to do the best possible. Last month, when asked about export controls to China, Huang pointed out that about half of the world's artificial intelligence researchers are from China, many of whom work in American laboratories.

America’s CNBC also pointed out that the latest export restrictions on NVIDIA’s H20 chip bring a strategic blow far greater than a financial one. NVIDIA dominates the AI system semiconductor market, and sales to China are crucial to its future. NVIDIA believes that if it exits the Chinese market, its chip sales business will be handed over to Huawei, China's leading AI chip manufacturer, and Huawei will begin challenging its global sales share.

Patrick Moorhead, an analyst at US technology consulting firm Moor Insights & Strategy, said: "This cuts off NVIDIA's access to a key market, and they will lose momentum in China. Ultimately, Chinese companies will turn to Huawei."

In response to the Trump administration's plan to further control chip exports, China's Foreign Ministry previously responded that China has repeatedly expressed its strong stance against America's malicious blockade and suppression of China's semiconductor industry. The US side politicizes, generalizes security issues, and instrumentalizes economic and technological issues, constantly increasing restrictions on Chinese chip exports, coercing other countries to suppress China's semiconductor industry. Such actions hinder the development of the global semiconductor industry and will ultimately backfire, harming both others and itself.

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