Title: Competing in AI Chips amidst Technology War – China’s Capabilities and Challenges
主讲人: Dr. Dieter Ernst
Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation/CIGI (Waterloo, Canada) and at the East-West Center (Honolulu, USA)
主持人: Dr.Zheng Liang
Professor, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University
Deputy Director, China Institute for Science and Technology Policy at Tsinghua University
时间:14:00-16:00, NOV 25th 2019 (Monday)
地点：Room 302, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University
语言：English
主题内容：
As part of the trade war that the United States is prosecuting against China, the Trump Administration has sharply increased the range of restrictions on the export of US technology to China, targeting specific designated “entities”such as Huawei and China’s leading AI start-up companies. Chinese investment in US firms with deemed “sensitive” technology is effectively banned; US visa restrictions obstruct knowledge exchange across borders;and far-reaching new restrictions are expected soon on the exportof emerging technologies to China, including quantum computing, 3-D manufacturing and key algorithms that guide artificial intelligence.
This lecture attempts to assess the challenges that China faces in developing its AI chip industry in the face of the US restrictions,drawing on field research conducted in China’s AI industry earlier this year with colleagues from the China Institute for Science and Technology Policy (CISTP) at Tsinghua University . Despite rapid catching-up in the design and fabrication of semiconductors, major weaknesses remain. Specifically, Dr. Ernst will highlight the immense challenges that China is facing in developing an integrated AI chip value chain, and review capabilities and challenges, both for the large players (Huawei, Alibaba and Baidu), and for a small group of AI chip unicorns.
主讲人简介：
Dr. Dieter Ernst is Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation/CIGI (Waterloo, Canada) and at the East-West Center (Honolulu, USA). He is an authority on trade, global production networks and the internationalization of research and development in high-tech industries, and innovation policies in the United States, China, India, Korea, and Malaysia. Dr. Ernst has provided testimony to US Congress; served as member of the National Academies "Committee on Global Approaches to Advanced Computing"; and advisor to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Paris.
