NVIDIA has revealed that it’s topic to new legal guidelines limiting the export of AI chips to China and Russia.
In an SEC filing, NVIDIA says the US authorities has knowledgeable the chipmaker of a brand new license requirement that impacts two of its GPUs designed to hurry up machine studying duties: the present A100, and the upcoming H100.
“The license requirement additionally consists of any future NVIDIA built-in circuit reaching each peak efficiency and chip-to-chip I/O efficiency equal to or larger than thresholds which are roughly equal to the A100, in addition to any system that features these circuits,” provides NVIDIA.
The US authorities has reportedly instructed NVIDIA that the brand new guidelines are geared at addressing the chance of the affected merchandise getting used for army functions.
“Whereas we aren’t able to stipulate particular coverage modifications at the moment, we’re taking a complete strategy to implement extra actions mandatory associated to applied sciences, end-uses, and end-users to guard US nationwide safety and international coverage pursuits,” stated a US Division of Commerce spokesperson.
China is a big marketplace for NVIDIA and the brand new guidelines might have an effect on round $400 million in quarterly gross sales.
AMD has additionally been instructed the brand new guidelines will impression its related merchandise, together with the MI200.
As of writing, NVIDIA’s shares have been down 11.45 % from the market open. AMD’s shares are down 6.81 %. Nevertheless, it’s price noting that it’s been one other crimson day for the broader inventory market.
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