HPC News Bytes 20251215: On-Off-On GPU Exports to China, the US-China Power Gap, Pocket-Sized HPC, Regulating AI

Warmest December greetings! AI technology and its impacts splashed around the world last week, here’s a fast (10:52) review of new developments, including: Nvidia H200 exports to China ….

Report: DeepSeek Model Delay Forces Use of NVIDIA GPUs

The Financial Times reported that DeepSeek was forced to delay the releas e of its new R2 large language model due to performance problems with Huawei Ascend processors, “highlighting the limits of Beijing’s push to replace US technology” …

NVIDIA to Manufacture AI Supercomputers in U.S.

NVIDIA today said it is working with manufacturing partners to design and build factories that will produce NVIDIA AI supercomputers — i.e., “AI factories” — entirely in the United States… NVIDIA said that within four years, it plans to produce up to half a trillion ….