Previously, the U.S. governmentUpdated domestic technology export ban, causing some NVIDIA high-performance chips to be unable to be sold to the Chinese market, sourcesdisplayNVIDIA will launch new customized chip products for the Chinese market to avoid the impact of the ban.
According to reports, NVIDIA has launched new customized chip products to meet the needs of the Chinese market, including HGX H20, L20 PCle, and L2 PCle GPUs, and NVIDIA will announce them to the public as early as November 11.
These three customized chip products can be used for cloud training, inference acceleration, and edge computing applications, respectively. The specific launch time has not yet been confirmed. However, sources believe that Chinese companies will obtain such products in a short time.
Prior to this, the US government updated its technology export ban within the United States, resulting in some of NVIDIA's artificial intelligence application chip products being unable to be sold to the Chinese market. Even the A800 and H800 GPU products, which had previously adjusted their performance in response to regulations, were included in the restricted export list.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said the move was intended to fill a loophole in export restrictions in October last year. The main purpose was to prevent the Chinese government from using advanced chips for military development. In the future, adjustments may be made at least once a year to prevent the Chinese government from exploiting policy loopholes to introduce advanced U.S. chip technology.
Gina Raimondo emphasized that the US government does not aim to harm the Chinese economy, so the restrictions adjusted this time do not include most consumer chips used in laptops, smartphones, and gaming applications, but export licenses for some chip products still require approval from the US government.
In addition to China, the newly adjusted regulations also expand the export ban on advanced chips to over 40 countries and regions, preventing advanced chip products exported to China from being re-transferred through these countries and regions. At the same time, the US government has also added a requirement for 21 countries and regions outside of China to obtain approval for advanced process chip manufacturing tools. This is intended to prevent Chinese companies from obtaining advanced process chip manufacturing tools through other channels, further limiting the possibility of Chinese companies developing advanced process chip products independently.
