The current U.S. administration is aiming for governmental agencies to block the sale of Nvidia‘s new AI accelerator for use in data centres to China.
The Information reported federal agencies were told not to issue export licences for the company’s scaled-down version of its advanced Blackwell chip, designed to avoid US export controls.
Nvidia reportedly sent samples of its B30A chip to some customers in China for testing.
The latest restrictions on Nvidia’s AI chips for China are not expected to have a material impact on the chipmaker’s revenue growth. The company earlier told analysts not to include any China sales of its data centre AI chips in their financial forecasts.
Founder of industry blog Radio Free Mobile Richard Windsor said at the time he doesn’t think losing the Chinese market will do Nvidia “any meaningful harm”, because what it loses in China it will make up elsewhere.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who met with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co executives on the 7th November, said the company isn’t holding discussions with companies in China about selling its Blackwell AI chips, Bloomberg reported.
Source: Mobile World Live
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