How Nvidia’s Chip Bans Paved the Way
The US has been keeping AI chips away from China for years now. The process started back in October 2022 with the Biden administration, which moved to block exports of the Nvidia A100 and H100 GPUs — the most powerful processor offered by the company at that time.
Later that same year, Nvidia released the less-powerful A800 chip to meet the China sales requirements. This chip was blocked in late 2023. Nvidia’s next attempt, the H20 chip, met the new, more strict requirements. At least, it did until this month, when the Trump administration blocked exports of that chip, too.
With Nvidia frozen out, Huawei’s path towards dominating the Chinese AI chip market seems clear.
