According to insiders:

USA tightens embargo on AI chips for China

According to a media report, the USA is considering a further tightening of the ban on the export of state-of-the-art computer chips to China. The current talks revolve around the "Gate All-Around" (GAA) processor architecture, wrote the Bloomberg news agency on Tuesday, citing insiders.

GAA is used to increase the performance of semiconductors and reduce their power requirements. A ban on high-performance memory chips, known as high-bandwidth memory (HBM), is also being discussed.

The major semiconductor companies such as Nvidia, Intel, AMD and TSMC are expected to begin mass production of processors based on the GAA architecture in the coming months, the report continued. Nvidia and Intel did not want to comment on a possible embargo. The US Department of Commerce and the other companies were initially unavailable for comment.

In order to slow down China's technological and military rise, the USA has increasingly restricted exports of high technology to the People's Republic in recent years. Most recently, the bans have focused on products related to the promising field of artificial intelligence.