Suppliers of parts for Nvidia’s H200 have paused production after Chinese customs officials blocked shipments of the newly approved artificial intelligence processors from entering China, according to a report.
Nvidia had expected more than one million orders from Chinese clients, the report said, adding that its suppliers had been operating around the clock to prepare for shipping as early as March.
Chinese customs authorities this week told customs agents that Nvidia’s H200 chips were not permitted to enter the country, Reuters reported.
Sources have also said government officials summoned domestic tech firms to warn them against buying the chips unless it was necessary.
Those in favour say its availability might slow China’s progress developing similar chips and keep Chinese companies dependent on US technology; those against say the H200 is, for example, powerful enough to be used in weapons systems that China’s military might one day deploy against the US or its allies.
The only reasons for and against selling the gpus to china is to stall there development.
Chinese companies are starting to produce their own GPUs now. They probably want to ramp up those.
GN got a Chinese GPU a few weeks ago but sadly no video on it running yet I’m very curious about it. Drivers seem to be an issue
Very cool!
Chinese don’t want American backdoored GPUs.
chinese bideogame cards when
not only huawei. heard of another one like this too, but they are making server stuff still too.
i figure the consumer stuff will come when these are consolidated and they get extra fab capacity.
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It’s all just show anyway. All the Nvidia chip restriction did is teach Chinese devs to do more with less, and now they’re running circles around other labs that have 100X the hardware. They don’t need the H200s.
You ask me? If the US wants to seed AI development: restrict Nvidia GPU sales in the US. It’d force labs to get smarter with less, and branch out to more diverse hardware, instead of monopolizing and scaling up.
It’s not just show though. The restriction keeps the pressure that helped the Chinese advances. They also need it in order to accelerate the development of domestic hardware. So the restriction has a necessary purpose.
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Intel is 10% us govt owned and already had to be saved once. I don’t see it doing great long term
