Overview
- Federal agencies have been told no licenses will be issued for exports of Nvidia’s China-targeted B30A, according to The Information.
- The scaled-down chip can be clustered to train large language models required by Chinese companies.
- Nvidia had provided B30A samples to several customers in China before the reported decision.
- Nvidia is altering the chip’s design in hopes of a policy reconsideration, The Information reports, citing two company employees.
- Beijing has directed state-funded data centers to use only domestic chips, and Nvidia says China contributes no datacenter compute share to its guidance.