NVIDIA Corp (NASDAQ: NVDA) said it had altered its flagship product into a legal version to export to China. On Tuesday, Nvidia said it has similarly developed a China-export version of its H100 chip, Reuters reports. The H800 mainly reduced the chip-to-chip data transfer rate to about half the speed of the flagship H100. The cloud computing units of Chinese technology firms like Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE: BABA), Baidu Inc (NASDAQ: BIDU), and Tencent Holdings Ltd (OTC: TCEHY) used the new Read More...
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Nvidia tweaks flagship H100 chip for export to China as H800
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -Nvidia Corp, the U.S. semiconductor designer that dominates the market for artificial intelligence (AI) chips, said it has modified its flagship product into a version that is legal to export to China. U.S. regulators last year put into place rules that stopped Nvidia from selling its two most advanced chips, the A100 and newer H100, to Chinese customers citing national security concerns. Reuters in November reported that Nvidia had designed a chip called the A800 that reduced some capabilities of the A100 to make the A800 legal for export to China.
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