Chinese developers, including Alibaba and Biren Technology Startup, intentionally slow down their chips to avoid US sanctions. About this reports Financial Times.
Biren Technology Startup and Alibaba giant developed new processors and sent them to production, but were forced to slow down, since US sanctions demand a limitation of two -directed data transfer in 600 GB/s.
The anonymous employee of Bireen said that in order for Taiwan Semiconductor manuapacturn (TSMC) the Taiwan Semiconductor began to produce their products, the company had to reduce the speed of the new Biren BR100 with 640 GB/s to 576 GB/s.
Dylan Patel, the chief analyst of the Semianalysis semiconductor research group, one of the first to pay attention to changing the specifications of the BIREN chips, said that the developers seek to slow down the chip, turning off its part. He expressed doubt that American regulators would approve of such actions, since the chip design does not change in any way and there are no guarantees that it will not be launched in the future at full power.