NVIDIA's powerful A100 and H100 GPU chips, as well as AMD's MI250 AI chip are now on the White House's export ban list for national security grounds.
The US Department of Commerce has imposed a new license requirement on high-end artificial intelligence chips, A100 and H100 GPU, sold to China and Russia, reported by two of the U.S.'s largest chipmakers, NVIDIA (Chinese: 辉达) and AMD (Chinese: 超威半导体公司).
The primary intent of this is to restrict China's and Russia's military capabilities; However, it could significantly impede technological advances in related industries, such as metaverse, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and facial recognition.
China's supercomputing centers are seen as the main affected ones, a move that could also affect electric vehicle (EV) makers that use chips for Research and Development (R&D).
NVIDIA is facing a potential loss up to USD 400 million revenue as the US banned exports of these advanced AI chips, according to the filing. AMD has also been given new requirements by the US Department of Commerce that will hit shipments of its MI250 integrated circuits to China.
Despite the fast-growing EV industry in China, domestic automotive enterprises are racing for self-driving technology, and the computing power provided by high-end chips Nvidia and AMD is of paramount importance.
NIO (Chinese: 蔚来汽车) is using NVIDIA HGX A100 to build a comprehensive and integrated data center infrastructure on which to develop AI-powered and software-defined vehicles, in a statement said by NVIDIA China.
NVIDIA is working with customers in China to satisfy their planned or future purchases with alternative products and seek licenses where replacements aren't sufficient, said Jensen Huang, co-founder of NVIDIA.