Reuters exclusively reported that Nvidia (NVDA-USA) confirmed on Monday (7) that the company will launch a new high-end chip, Nvidia A800, in China to comply with US technology export controls on the Chinese semiconductor industry.
Nvidia’s high-end A100 chips were banned from exporting to China after the US extended export controls on chips and chip equipment to China. Nvidia on Monday announced the launch of a new A800 chip, the first time Nvidia has produced high-end chips for China that complies with the new U.S. trade rules Alternative to A100 wafers.
Nvidia said: “The Nvidia A800 graphics card (GPU) will go into production in the third quarter and replace the Nvidia A100 for Chinese customers. The A800 complies with US government export control tests and cannot be compiled to pass the US standard “.
At press time, Nvidia declined to comment on whether it consulted the Commerce Department regarding the new chip and a Commerce Department spokesperson declined to comment.
Affected by the new U.S. export rules, Nvidia (NVDA-USA) had previously issued a forecast notice that it could lose about $ 400 million in potential sales in China in the current third quarter.
“The A800 appears to be a repackaged A100 GPU to circumvent the latest US Department of Commerce trade restrictions,” said CCS Insight analyst Wayne Lam. “China is an important market for Nvidia and it’s good business to remake products to avoid trade restrictions.”
It is reported that when the A100 GPU is running data-intensive workloads, its transfer rate reaches 600GB per second, while the A800’s data transfer rate is 400GB per second. on semiconductors they limit the speed to over 600GB per second.
“As the engine of a data center platform, the performance of the A800 has decreased significantly,” said Lam.
