{"id":68604,"date":"2022-10-14T16:32:14","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T13:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=68604"},"modified":"2025-09-07T15:03:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T12:03:24","slug":"opinion-american-sanctions-may-slow-chinas-robo-car-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/opinion-american-sanctions-may-slow-chinas-robo-car-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: American sanctions may slow China&#8217;s robo-car development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new U.S. sanctions on Chinese AI and supercomputing sectors could slow the development of autonomous vehicles in China, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitimes.com\/news\/a20221012PD206\/automotive-ic-china-chip-bans-vehicle.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">DigiTimes Asia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Experts say that the majority of commercial autonomous vehicles in China are equipped for <span data-descr=\"Partial automation. The driver must keep hands on the wheel and remain vigilant.\" class=\"old_tooltip\">Level 2 automation<\/span>. Many manufacturers are ready to introduce more advanced systems, but the government has not approved rules for their operation.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts expect that China could find a solution domestically and develop the autonomous-vehicle industry. However, sources in the supply chain say that the operation of robocars is closely tied to cloud services, data centers, 5G and more.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. ban on the export of high-performance Nvidia and AMD chips directly affects the infrastructure cited above. Therefore manufacturers must first address this issue in order to lay the groundwork for autonomous cars at <span data-descr=\"Conditional automation. No immediate driver response required, except in some cases.\" class=\"old_tooltip\">Level 3 automation<\/span> and above.<\/p>\n<p>Among the 31 companies on the sanctions list are Chinese firms involved in auto-component inspection. Since future cars are described as mobile high-performance computers, Washington is expected to curb both domestic and foreign intellectualisation of transport, experts said.<\/p>\n<p>Supply\u2011chain sources acknowledged that manufacturing automotive chips can be achieved with mature processes such as 40\u201390 nm. If the automotive sector settles on 28 nm, China would have a chance to substitute American products with its own. However, future restrictions could threaten that possibility.<\/p>\n<p>Although China has mastered the 28-nm process, chip quality still does not meet automotive industry standards. This is likely due to stricter durability, reliability and safety requirements. As a result, automotive chips remain heavily dependent on imports, experts note.<\/p>\n<p>Local media reports indicate that China\u2019s share of microcontrollers in the global market stands at about 1%, and <span data-descr=\"insulated-gate bipolar transistor\" class=\"old_tooltip\">IGBT<\/span> and memory chips account for less than 10%. This likely also signals a strong dependence on imported chips.<\/p>\n<p>In October, the U.S. government <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/us-imposes-restrictions-on-ai-chip-shipments-to-china\">imposed new restrictions<\/a> on the supply of AI chips to China.<\/p>\n<p>In September, Nvidia and AMD <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/us-tightens-ai-chip-exports-to-china-and-russia\">were banned from selling<\/a> processors for supercomputers and AI workloads to Chinese firms.<\/p>\n<p>In the same month, experts suggested that China <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/media-china-poised-to-rapidly-forge-an-alternative-to-nvidias-ai-accelerators\">would quickly create an alternative<\/a> to American technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogAI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">ForkLog AI<\/a> \u2014 all the news from the world of AI!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new U.S. sanctions on Chinese AI and supercomputing sectors could slow the development of autonomous vehicles in China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[438,1138,686],"class_list":["post-68604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-opinions","tag-sanctions"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"19","promo_type":"","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68606,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68604\/revisions\/68606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}