Hardware Restrictions and AI Competition: The Effect of NVIDIA GPU Export Restrictions on AI Benchmark Performance

• In Event: The Domestic Determinants of U.S. Foreign Economic Policy

Brief Overview

This study evaluates U.S. export controls on NVIDIA GPUs and their effects on AI benchmarks, showing that restrictions introduced in successive phases were followed by performance gains and proposing tests of adaptive mechanisms.

Author

• Xingyuan Zhao, University of Texas at Dallas