The US is probably ahead but they're so obsessed with moats, IP and safety that their lagginess is self imposed.
China has nothing to lose and everything to gain by releasing stuff openly.
Once China figures put how to make high performance FPGA chips really cheap, its game over for the US. The only power the US has is over GPU supply...and even then its pretty weak.
Not to mention NVIDIA crippling its own country with low VRAM cards. China is taking older cards, stripping the RAM and upgrading other older cards.
China has nothing to lose and everything to gain by releasing stuff openly.
Once China figures put how to make high performance FPGA chips really cheap, its game over for the US. The only power the US has is over GPU supply...and even then its pretty weak.
Not to mention NVIDIA crippling its own country with low VRAM cards. China is taking older cards, stripping the RAM and upgrading other older cards.