America is spending hundreds of billions of dollars to build data centers in an attempt to lead the development of new artificial intelligence technology. Both lobbyists and lawmakers argue constantly about who could or should make the chips inside them, but there are far fewer people who ask about the components that connect those chips to each other and the outside world. That’s a big mistake because many of those components are made in China.
\n\nOptical transceivers are a major part of data center infrastructure, enabling high-speed data transfer between servers, racks and facilities. Nearly every major AI cluster in the country depends on them to operate, and China is the main supplier. In fact, Johns Hopkins Associate Professor Yury Dvorkin recently told Breitbart that China supplies approximately two-thirds of global optical transceivers.
\n\nChinese companies such as Innolight, which got added to the Department of War’s Chinese Military Companies list this year, and Eoptolink are among the leading suppliers. Would any serious country allow an adversary to dominate an industry on which it is increasingly reliant?
\n\nNone of this is accidental. China’s strategy is well documented: rely on state money and industrial policy to research critical technologies; undercut foreign competition…
Original source: https://www.breitbart.com/tech/
