Updated:According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, most consumer chips used in laptops, smartphones, and gaming applications can still be sold in China. Therefore, the GeForce RTX 4090 can still be sold in the Chinese market, but it cannot be produced in China and cannot be used for commercial purposes.
The US government recently updated its domestic technology export ban, 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 the regulations, have been 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.
Therefore, although the GeForce RTX 4090 is a consumer chip product, its overall computing power performance is higher than the specifications set by the US government.Therefore, it is still included in the export ban list。另外，針對商業應用設計的A100、A800、H800、H100、L40S等晶片也都在此次調整被列為限制出口產品。
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.
