NVIDIA SWERVES CHINESE SANCTIONS
Regulators not happy about it either
THE US GOVERNMENT has been restricting China’s access to certain US-based technology. China is notorious for ignoring intellectual property rights, and it came as something of a shock to regulators when China’s SMIC began mass production of 7nm ARM processors, with 5nm ones rumored to be not far behind. The focus of the ban is high-end AI processors, including GPUs. Last year’s ban on highend enterprise hardware such as Nvidia’s A100 and H100 chips has been extended, with Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 4090 included.