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A tale (from 10)

It was earlier expanded to give the U.S.
authority to control exports of chips to
China made overseas to Huawei and later
to Russia.

Chip firms notified
Chip makers quickly fell in line with the
new export controls policy. The Guardian
said AMD and NVIDIA, among others, had
earlier been notified of the forthcoming
restrictions. Jensen Huang, founder and president of NVIDIA announced an
alternative to the banned NVIDIA’s chips. (NVIDIA)
In response, NVIDIA, maker of graph- A100 GPU for customers in China,” accord-
ics chips, Santa Clara, Calif., unveiled a ing to the company. “The A800 meets the
substitute GPU with a reduced processing U.S. government’s clear test for reduced
speed for its second-largest market. export control and cannot be programmed
to exceed it.”
The NVIDIA A800 graphic processing unit
is “another alternative product to the AMD has confirmed, said Tom’s Hardware,
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