SILICON Valley chip designer Nvidia said revealed that us officials has told it to stop exporting two top computing chips for artificial intelligence work to China, a move that could cripple Chinese firms' ability to carry out advanced work like image recognition and hamper Nvidia's business in China, reports Reuters.
Nvidia said the ban, which affects its A100 and H100 chips designed to speed up machine learning tasks, could interfere with completion of developing the H100, the flagship chip Nvidia announced this year.
Shares of Nvidia rival Silicon Valley's Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) fell 3.7 per cent after hours. An AMD spokesman told Reuters the company had received new licence requirements that will stop its MI250 artificial intelligence chips from being exported to China, but it believes its MI100 chips will not be affected. AMD said it does not believe the new rules will have a material impact on its business.
Nvidia said US officials told it the new rule 'will address the risk that the covered products may be used in, or diverted to, a 'military end use' or 'military end users' in China.'
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Nvidia said the ban, which affects its A100 and H100 chips designed to speed up machine learning tasks, could interfere with completion of developing the H100, the flagship chip Nvidia announced this year.
Shares of Nvidia rival Silicon Valley's Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) fell 3.7 per cent after hours. An AMD spokesman told Reuters the company had received new licence requirements that will stop its MI250 artificial intelligence chips from being exported to China, but it believes its MI100 chips will not be affected. AMD said it does not believe the new rules will have a material impact on its business.
Nvidia said US officials told it the new rule 'will address the risk that the covered products may be used in, or diverted to, a 'military end use' or 'military end users' in China.'
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