NVIDIA Creates Three New Chips For China According To US Government Export Rules

JAKARTA - NVIDIA is developing three new Artificial Intelligence (AI) chips for China according to a Reuters report. Reportedly, the chip will be announced as early as November 16.

The three chips NVIDIA is developing are HGX H20, L20 PCle, and L2 PCle. One of the chips, namely H20, is called the strongest chip of all three. However, the computing power of all three chips will not exceed the rules set by the US government.

We need to know that the threshold America sets will not be enough to support the Artificial Intelligence (AI) application with high specifications. Therefore, users who use these three chips will need more chips.

For information, the US government has started limiting chip exports to supercomputers and AI applications to Russia and China since last year. These restrictions are imposed to hinder the use of chips as a military necessity.

Thanks to this regulation, NVIDIA cannot freely sell A100 and H100 chips, especially the A800 and H800 chips that are targeted for the Chinese market. All of these chips, including the RTX 4090 GPU, cannot be exported because they exceed the set threshold.

It is not yet known whether there was a loss from the cancellation of NVIDIA's chip exports, but the company has lost orders from China worth US$5 billion or around Rp78.4 trillion.

Once these restrictions were imposed, several companies from China such as Baidu, Huawei, Xiaomi, and Oppo had designed semiconductors until US export policies were changed again.