Although the U.S. government restricts sales of advanced processors for AI and HPC to China-based entities, these entities can use cloud services from companies like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft to access advanced U.S. processors, reports Reuters. Although the U.S. government mulls restricting availability of American cloud services for AI and HPC to entities in China and other sanctioned countries, for now they can bypass export bans by using AWS, Azure, and the like.
