Justin Sullivan
Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) intends to announce three new chips for China, weeks after the corporate was restricted by the U.S. from promoting two high-end synthetic intelligence chips and one other prime gaming chip to Chinese language corporations, Reuters reported citing native information outlet STAR Market Day by day.
The chips are generally known as HGX H20, L20 PCIe and L2 PCIe and that the U.S. tech large might announce them on Nov. 16 on the earliest, the media outlet mentioned citing individuals with data of the matter.
In October, the U.S. introduced in new updates to its export restrictions which curbed the sale of chips that Nvidia (NVDA) made for the Chinese language market, such because the A800 and H800 chips, as a part of Washington’s efforts geared toward hindering China’s entry to superior semiconductor expertise. Final yr, the U.S. imposed guidelines proscribing Nvidia from promoting its A100 and H100 chips to China, after which the corporate had give you A800 and H800 chips as options for the Chinese language market.
One of many firm’s prime gaming chips, L40S, which it introduced in August, would even be affected, the report famous.
Nvidia has held over 90% share of China’s $7B AI chip market, nonetheless, analysts famous that the U.S. restrictions might profit native gamers resembling Huawei Applied sciences.
Earlier this week, it was reported that Chinese language web search large Baidu (BIDU) had ordered AI chips from Huawei. The corporate ordered 1,600 of Huawei’s 910B Ascend AI chips — which have been developed as an alternative choice to Nvidia’s A100 chip — for 200 servers.
