Even the Latest Low-Spec Nvidia AI Chips Barred from Export to China
The Donald Trump administration in the United States has reportedly decided not to allow the export of Nvidia's latest modified artificial intelligence (AI) chips to China.
On November 6 (local time), Reuters, citing IT-specialized media outlet The Information, reported that the White House had informed other U.S. federal agencies of this policy.
This chip, called the 'B30A,' is a model developed by lowering the performance of Nvidia's latest chip, Blackwell. Servers equipped with the Blackwell B200 graphics processing unit (GPU) deliver three times the performance in AI training and approximately 15 times the performance in inference model execution compared to previous-generation H100-based servers.
The U.S. is restricting the export of Nvidia chips, judging that American dominance in the AI sector could be threatened.
However, unable to give up the Chinese market, Nvidia developed the B30A with reduced performance compared to the B200 and is reported to have already provided samples to Chinese clients. Nvidia is said to be modifying the design of the B30A chip, hoping that the Trump administration will reconsider its stance.
Previously, Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, actively lobbied for the approval of B30A chip exports to China ahead of the summit between President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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