{"id":1195897,"date":"2023-10-24T17:07:12","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T21:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1195897"},"modified":"2023-10-24T17:07:12","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T21:07:12","slug":"us-surprises-nvidia-by-speeding-up-new-ai-chip-export-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1195897","title":{"rendered":"US surprises Nvidia by speeding up new AI chip export ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/nvidia_h100_hero_3-800x448-1.jpg\" alt=\"The Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPU\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/nvidia_h100_hero_3.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"560\" data-width=\"1000\">Enlarge<\/a> <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> A press photo of the Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPU. (credit: <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"caption-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/en-us\/data-center\/h100\/\">Nvidia<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>On Tuesday, chip designer Nvidia <a href=\"https:\/\/d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net\/CIK-0001045810\/727e299d-66b4-4da9-b6d0-63d0fd498248.pdf\">announced<\/a> in an SEC filing that new US export restrictions on its high-end AI GPU chips to China are now in effect sooner than expected, according to a report from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/nvidia-says-us-speeded-up-new-export-curbs-ai-chips-2023-10-24\/\">Reuters<\/a>. The curbs were initially scheduled to take effect 30 days after their announcement on October 17 and are designed to prevent China, Iran, and Russia from acquiring advanced AI chips.<\/p>\n<p>The banned chips are advanced graphics processing units (GPUs) that are commonly used for training and running deep learning AI applications similar to <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2022\/12\/openai-invites-everyone-to-test-new-ai-powered-chatbot-with-amusing-results\/\">ChatGPT<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2023\/09\/openai-announces-dall-e-3-a-next-gen-ai-image-generator-based-on-chatgpt\/\">AI image generators<\/a>, among other uses. GPUs are well-suited for neural networks because their massively parallel architecture performs the <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2023\/06\/nvidias-new-ai-superchip-combines-cpu-and-gpu-to-train-monster-ai-systems\/\">necessary matrix multiplications<\/a> involved in running neural networks faster than conventional processors.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration initially <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2022\/09\/us-restricts-sales-of-high-end-nvidia-ai-chips-to-china-and-russia\/\">announced<\/a> an advanced AI chip export ban in September 2022, and in reaction, Nvidia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/11\/8\/23447886\/nvidia-a800-china-chip-ai-research-slowed-down-restrictions\">designed and released new chips<\/a>, the A800 and H800, to comply with those export rules for the Chinese market. In November 2022, Nvidia told The Verge that the A800 &#8220;meets the US Government\u2019s clear test for reduced export control and cannot be programmed to exceed it.&#8221; However, the new curbs enacted Monday specifically halt the exports of these modified Nvidia AI chips. The Nvidia <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2020\/05\/nvidia-ditches-intel-cozies-up-to-amd-with-its-new-dgx-a100\/\">A100<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2022\/09\/hopper-time-nvidias-most-powerful-ai-chip-yet-ships-in-october\/\">H100<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/en-us\/data-center\/l40s\/\">L40S<\/a> chips are also included in the export restrictions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1978300#p3\">Read 3 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1978300&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1978300\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">US surprises Nvidia by speeding up new AI chip export ban<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge \/ A press photo of the Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPU. (credit: Nvidia) On Tuesday, chip designer Nvidia announced in an SEC filing that new US export restrictions on its high-end AI GPU chips to China are now in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1195897\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1195898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1195897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1195897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1195898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1195897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1195897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1195897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}