NVIDIA has decided not to lose income from GPU supplies to China, or at least will try as much as possible
What is known
October sanctions, in fact, completelyrestricted the export of advanced chips to China if they use American technology. The new restrictions could cost NVIDIA hundreds of millions of dollars. Therefore, she developed a new chip specifically for the Chinese market.
The GPU is called A800 and isa simplified version of the A100. According to Reuters, the GPU has already appeared on the website of the NVIDIA distributor in China. The NVLink connection speed is reduced by a third compared to the A100 - from 600 GB / s to 400 GB / s. This will negatively impact the performance of data centers.
According to Reuters, the A800 chip enteredproduction in the third quarter of 2022. NVIDIA does not acknowledge whether it consulted with the US Department of Commerce about the creation of a new GPU. The department declines to comment. Chinese server makers and local distributor NVIDIA have also remained silent for now.