The Wall Street Journal reports that Washington is considering tightening its export controls on AI chips to China as a means of preventing US companies’ top hardware from being used by or diverted to military users, finding its way into the nation’s supercomputers, or being used for hacking.
In September last year, the US further tightened sanctions against China by instructing Nvidia and AMD to stop selling their high-performance AI-focused GPUs to the country (and Russia). The sanctions mean that China cannot import Nvidia A100 or H100 GPUs, while AMD’s MI250 Instinct card is also prohibited, leaving less powerful options such as the MI100 accelerator and the Nvidia A800, the latter of which was created to comply with the sanctions.
