Since last fall, the US government has completely banned the export of NVIDIA A100 and H100 chips to China. Despite
What is known
Yes, chips are not officially sold in the territoryCelestial, but this does not mean that they cannot be purchased. By the way, NVIDIA created the A800 and H800 chips as analogues of the A100 and H100, respectively, but with several times lower performance. However, our story is not about that.
Reuters correspondents visited a large marketelectronics in Shenzhen. After talking with local sellers, they received at least 10 offers to sell NVIDIA A100 chips. Moreover, we are talking about a small batch, and the price is $20,000 instead of $10,000. There is no guarantee.
NVIDIA chips, the supply of which is prohibitedsanctions reach China in two ways. The first channel is thanks to intermediaries from India, Taiwan or Singapore. The second channel is when large companies send chips to the American market that were not needed through “gray” suppliers' products go to China.
NVIDIA H100 is almost impossible to find in China,because they only appeared a few months ago. Chips are found on popular Chinese Internet sites, but this is used by attackers who sell fakes.