White House Will Block Sales Of NVIDIA Small-Scale AI Processors To China

NVIDIA faces the challenge of selling B30A chips to China (photo: dock. unsplash)

JAKARTA The White House will limit the sale of one of its NVIDIA products. The company will not allow NVIDIA to sell its newest small-scale Artificial Intelligence (AI) processor to China.

According to sources familiar with the matter, according to The Information, this statement has been submitted to other federal agencies. The processor, whose sale will be banned, is known as B30A.

NVIDIA designed processors to train big language models (LLM). B30A has a very important role when drawn up in large clusters, a capability much needed by many Chinese companies.

Although small scale, this processor is considered to have great potential according to US regulators. The US government will not allow NVIDIA to sell B30A to various technology companies in China.

In fact, NVIDIA has provided samples of the processor to a number of its customers in China. However, with the issuance of this decision, NVIDIA must refrain from expanding its sales market.

Launching from Reuters, a spokesman for NVIDIA stated that the company "does not have a significant market share" in China's data center computing market. NVIDIA also asked the White House not to include the ban in its sales guidance.

NVIDIA is known to be modifying the B30A design. By doing so, NVIDIA hopes that the US government can reconsider its ban on the sale of the processor in China.

On the other hand, NVIDIA is also facing regulatory barriers in China. Beijing recently issued strict guidance, in which all new data center projects receiving state funding must use domestically developed processors.

This guide instructs data centers that less than 30 percent are completed to remove all installed foreign processors. More advanced projects will be reviewed case by case, but the core of the policy remains the same.