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Oct 24 (Reuters) – Chip designer Nvidia (NVDA.O) mentioned new U.S. export curbs on the sale of its high-end synthetic intelligence chips to China got here into impact on Monday as regulators superior the deadline.
The restrictions have been supposed to come back into play 30 days from Oct. 17 when the Biden administration unveiled measures to cease international locations, together with China, Iran and Russia, from receiving superior AI chips designed by Nvidia and others.
Nvidia doesn’t count on a near-term impression on its earnings from the transfer, it disclosed in a submitting on Tuesday, however didn’t say why the U.S. authorities had accelerated the timing.
Superior Micro Units (AMD.O), additionally impacted by the curbs, didn’t instantly reply to Reuters’ requests for remark, whereas the U.S. Division of Commerce declined to remark.
Intel (INTC.O), which started promoting its Gaudi 2 chips in China in July, mentioned it was “reviewing the rules and assessing the potential impression.”
The restrictions bar exports of Nvidia’s modified superior AI chips A800 and H800 – each of which have been created for the Chinese language market to adjust to earlier export guidelines.
The Nvidia A100, H100 and L40S chips are additionally impacted by the curbs.
Reporting by Aditya Soni in Bengaluru; Modifying by Arun Koyyur and Anil D’Silva
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