The U.S. Department of Commerce has escalated its efforts to resist the sale of advanced chips to China after loopholes in last year’s export restrictions were put in place. This time, the target is Nvidia’s chip designed specifically for the Chinese market, reported Bloomberg.
The sale of the Nvidia H100 graphics processing units (GPUs) — the ideal selection for cloud providers and AI companies — were already included in the existing ban, and so Chinese companies were left with the slower A800 processors; however, according to CNBC, the new set of restrictions will ban the sale of these to China as well.
