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Suppliers of parts for Nvidia’s H200 have paused production after Chinese customs officials blocked shipments of the newly approved artificial intelligence processors from entering China, according to a report.

Nvidia had expected more than one million orders from Chinese clients, the report said, adding that its suppliers had been operating around the clock to prepare for shipping as early as March.

Chinese customs authorities this week told customs agents that Nvidia’s H200 chips were not permitted to enter the country, Reuters reported.

Sources have also said government officials summoned domestic tech firms to warn them against buying the chips unless it was necessary.

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[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Surely the US won't freak about this like massive hypocrites, right?

[-] pineapple@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

Those in favour say its availability might slow China’s progress developing similar chips and keep Chinese companies dependent on US technology; those against say the H200 is, for example, powerful enough to be used in weapons systems that China’s military might one day deploy against the US or its allies.

The only reasons for and against selling the gpus to china is to stall there development.

[-] herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago

Chinese companies are starting to produce their own GPUs now. They probably want to ramp up those.

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago

GN got a Chinese GPU a few weeks ago but sadly no video on it running yet I'm very curious about it. Drivers seem to be an issue

[-] pineapple@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago
[-] Balldowern@lemmy.zip 27 points 1 day ago

Chinese don't want American backdoored GPUs.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 39 points 2 days ago
[-] ms_lane@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

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[-] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's all just show anyway. All the Nvidia chip restriction did is teach Chinese devs to do more with less, and now they're running circles around other labs that have 100X the hardware. They don't need the H200s.

You ask me? If the US wants to seed AI development: restrict Nvidia GPU sales in the US. It'd force labs to get smarter with less, and branch out to more diverse hardware, instead of monopolizing and scaling up.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 day ago

It's not just show though. The restriction keeps the pressure that helped the Chinese advances. They also need it in order to accelerate the development of domestic hardware. So the restriction has a necessary purpose.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 day ago

chinese bideogame cards when

[-] herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago
[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

not only huawei. heard of another one like this too, but they are making server stuff still too.

i figure the consumer stuff will come when these are consolidated and they get extra fab capacity.

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