US chip maker NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) spokesperson confirmed to Titanium Media App this morning that the NVIDIA A800 GPU, which will be put into production in the third quarter of this year, will be another NVIDIA NVIDIA product for Chinese customers. Alternative to the A100 GPU. The A800 meets the US government's explicit test for reducing export controls and cannot be programmed to exceed it.
This means that, in order to solve the new semiconductor export regulations of the US Department of Commerce, NVIDIA has launched a new China-specific version of the A800 GPU to replace the A100 GPU, which has been put into production since the third quarter of this year.
According to the Global Times, on October 7, local time, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issued a new, wide-ranging set of export control measures to restrict the export of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and supercomputing chip manufacturing to China. , production equipment, and some of the tools required to implement new restrictions aimed at preventing China from acquiring the high-performance computing capabilities that require the use of advanced semiconductors.
Subsequently, Nvidia issued an announcement on its official website, claiming that the new measures affected the company’s revenue of about $400 million in its most recent fiscal quarter. As early as late August, Nvidia and AMD said that products including Nvidia’s data center chips A100 and H100 were included in the export control list by the U.S. Department of Commerce.
And according to Nvidia, the new A800 can replace the A100, both of which are GPU (graphics processing unit) processors. The NVIDIA A800 GPU information introduced on the official website of chip dealer OMNISKY Rongtian shows that the data transfer rate of the new chip is 400GB per second, which is lower than the 600GB per second of the A100, which represents a significant decrease in the performance of the data center. Moreover, the A800 supports a memory bandwidth of up to 2TB/s, with little change in other parameters.
