Concerns grow as military-linked Chinese university buys Nvidia chips [video]

Am I the only person who thinks this is mostly paranoia ?

China has vast technical resources, and are producing some of the best models.

We are trying to stop them from doing, that which they have already demonstrated excellence in, by taking the ball and going home ?

And of course, they didn't stop playing, they just made their own ball.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiSilicon#AI_acceleration

Huawei Ascend 910C ... achieves performance similar to NVIDIA H100. NVIDIA H100 chips were banned from sale to China by US government in 2022

Ascend 920 was announced in April 2025 and expected to provide performance similar to NVIDIA H20 chip (which was banned in April 2025 from selling to China).

In July 2026, Shanghai Aishengna Electronic Technology Group (having absorbed Shanghai Yuliangsheng Technology), a secretive Chinese state-backed company, has started mass producing DUV lithography machines:[92][93][94] about one unit per month in 2026 and twice more in 2027.

China is about to have a lot of balls.