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Nvidia faces new US restrictions on the export of its H20 chip to China, a policy change that will cost the company billions of US dollars and hamstring a product line that it explicitly designed to comply with previous curbs.
The government informed Nvidia on Monday (Apr 14) that the H20 would require a license to export to China “for the indefinite future”, the company said in a regulatory filing on Tuesday.
Officials said that the new rules address concerns that “the covered products may be used in, or diverted to, a supercomputer in China”, according to the filing.
Nvidia warned that it will report about US$5.5 billion in charges during the fiscal first quarter from “inventory, purchase commitments and related reserves” tied to the H20 line.
Source: Philiips