The day before the agency Bloomberg confidently reported that the computing capabilities of the Chinese company’s Biren BR100 accelerators are slightly worse than the NVIDIA A100, and therefore US sanctions will not interfere with their further production. Today the source has radically changed the rhetoric, he has declared on TSMC’s decision to suspend shipment of these 7nm accelerators to a Chinese customer.
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In the summer, Biren Technology wasn’t shy declarethat the BR100 accelerator she developed is capable of challenging the NVIDIA A100. The features of the Chinese novelty really inspired respect: 77 billion transistors, 7nm production process and CoWoS 2.5D spatial layout, 64GB of onboard memory, support for PCI Express 5.0 and CXL interfaces. However, when it came to a new wave of anti-Chinese sanctions, Biren representatives, on condition of anonymity, preferred to say that their offspring does not reach the level of NVIDIA A100, and therefore does not fall under the new export restrictions.
Today it has become known, according to Bloombergthat TSMC took no risks and suspended the production of Biren Technology 7 nm accelerators. At the same time, the Taiwanese contractor has not come to a definitive conclusion that Biren products belong to the category of prohibited products, but deliveries will be stopped “just in case”. Biren accelerators are designed to work in computer vision systems, natural speech processing and its synthesis using artificial intelligence. Representatives of the Chinese company have not yet commented on the news, according to Bloomberg.
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