The Geopolitics of AI Infrastructure - Dylan Patel, SemiAnalysis
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The video covers advanced geopolitics and technology focusing on China’s Huawei and US infrastructure. Huawei has engineered powerful AI chips like Ascend 910B/C and the Cloud Matrix 384 system, surpassing Nvidia’s attempts at similar architectures despite US sanctions. Huawei accesses manufacturing through TSMC and circumvents sanctions creatively. The video discusses large-scale AI data center developments in the Middle East (UAE and Saudi Arabia), involving huge GPU cluster deals, with investments from US and Middle Eastern entities. It highlights the US’s critical power infrastructure shortfall for data centers compared to other regions. The geopolitical and economic implications of these developments and challenges in US data center power capacity are analyzed. The video’s Q&A touches on SMIC’s dependence on Western tools and China’s strategy of reverse engineering to advance chip manufacturing domestically.