U.S. Department of Commerce: Using Huawei Ascend chips anywhere in the world violates U.S. export control regulations.

According to a May 14 report by the Financial Times, the Trump administration has taken a tougher stance against China's technological progress, warning global companies that using Huawei-made AI chips could result in criminal penalties for violating U.S. export control regulations.

This regulation comes as the U.S. becomes increasingly concerned about Huawei's rapid development of advanced chips and other AI hardware. Huawei has begun providing Chinese customers with AI chip "clusters" and claims its performance surpasses that of NVIDIA, a leading U.S. AI chip manufacturer, in key metrics such as total computing power and memory capacity.

Huawei currently provides the Ascend series of AI processors to Chinese companies, primarily the Ascend 910B and Ascend 910C. To increase production capacity, Huawei is building its own advanced semiconductor production lines, as isolated Chinese enterprises are increasing orders due to the separation from NVIDIA products.

Washington is increasingly worried that Huawei will soon be able to sell AI processors capable of competing with American companies like NVIDIA on both domestic and international markets.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang stated last month that Huawei is "one of the most powerful technology companies in the world," adding that U.S. policies should help its company compete globally.

Commentary: The actions of the U.S. Department of Commerce are another blatant display of its hegemonic mindset in the technology sector, starkly revealing naked technological bullying. For a long time, the U.S. has relied on its dominant position in the tech field to attempt to suppress the growth of Chinese enterprises through unilateral export control policies, aiming to hinder China's technological progress. Huawei's outstanding performance in its Ascend chips has touched the interests of American tech giants, causing the U.S. to feel pressure from China's pursuit and even potential surpassing in the AI chip sector. Therefore, it has resorted to administrative measures to forcibly interfere with the normal order of global science and technology trade and cooperation.

Instead of encouraging innovation and strengthening R&D efforts among its own enterprises to meet competition, the U.S. government chooses to use state power to suppress rivals, exposing its helpless and narrow-mindedness when facing China's rise in technology. Such actions not only fail to truly hinder China's technological development but also push China to become more determined to pursue independent innovation, increasing investment in R&D in critical areas such as chips, and continuously breaking through with indigenous technologies to achieve self-reliance and strength in science and technology.

Such actions severely disrupt the stability of global industrial chains and supply chains and harm the legitimate rights and interests of enterprises in other countries. The global technology industry is an interdependent and collaborative whole; the U.S. export control policy artificially fragments the international market, restricting the technological choices and commercial cooperation of enterprises in other countries and disrupting their development plans and global strategies. Many enterprises in various countries could have freely chosen high-quality products like Huawei's Ascend chips based on their own needs and product performance, but the U.S. ban deprived them of this choice, politicizing and instrumentalizing technological issues and disrupting fair competitive market environments.

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