Tit for tat moves like this serves no legitimate public interest. The fact that Nvidia can even "redesign" and nerf chips on the fly should perhaps make it obvi

Tit for tat moves like this serves no legitimate public interest. The fact that Nvidia can even "redesign" and nerf chips on the fly should perhaps make it obvious to keen observers how ridiculous trying to control compute is. The bureaucrats have no idea what they're working with, a surface level grasp of technology and then naturally confabulate how impactful these trade wars are for political clout. If it were China doing this against the United States, what do you think would happen? Would we just bend over and deal with the slow tech? Or would we be pushed to work even faster? Obviously, all this is going to do is spur up domestic ASIC chip design and production. It's a net-win for China, with some short term pain.