US Deals Heavy Blow to China Tech Ambitions With Nvidia Chip Ban
- US government imposed new license requirement on China exports
- Strictures will hurt Chinese cloud providers and automakers
Nvidia headquarters in Santa Clara, California, US.
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The US government’s new restrictions on the ability of Nvidia Corp. to sell artificial intelligence chips to Chinese customers threatens to deal a heavy blow to the country’s development of a sweeping range of cutting-edge technologies.
The Santa Clara, California-based company disclosed in a regulatory filing this week it can no longer sell certain high-end chips in China without a license from Washington. These AI accelerators go into large data centers to train AI models for tasks like autonomous driving, image recognition and voice assistance.