The United States has already barred AMD and NVIDIA from selling their most powerful artificial intelligence chip H100 to China. Therefore NVDIA produced a reduced capacity A800 chip to customers in that country. Now the Wall Street Journal reports that the U.S. may further tighten technological barriers that will prevent the H100 chip from being sold to China.
Citing inside sources, the WSJ said this latest barrier could be enforced as early as next month. H100 procurement hurdles have already made the development of artificial intelligence models in China 30% slower and twice as expensive. The U.S. also banned any investment into intelligence companies in China and their citizens were also not allowed to work in the same companies.
This is among the U.S. efforts to prevent China from achieving technological equality with China being accused of using this technology for military purposes.
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