For the Chinese market, Nvidia has introduced a replacement for the A100 chip with reduced processing speed. Such an analogue meets the requirements of the American authorities.
Almost all key characteristics of the Nvidia A800 GPU are similar to the A100 accelerator except for the data transfer speed. Reduced from 600 Gb/s to 400 Gb/s.
“This is another Nvidia A100 GPU alternative for customers in China. The A800 meets the U.S. government’s strict export control reduction test and cannot be programmed to exceed it,” a company spokesman said.
The production of the analogue has already begun, and its main place of application is in supercomputers, artificial intelligence and high-performance data processing centers for various industries. One of the biggest buyers of the chips was Chinese tech giant Alibaba.
According to the publication techcrunchchip distributors in China have already added the A800 to their catalogs.
Recall that the US government has made the A100 and the Nvidia H100 corporate AI chip on the export control list. According to Nvidia, the chip export ban will affect potential sales in China in the third quarter of 2022 worth up to $400 million. The new accelerator is likely an attempt to correct financial losses.
