US trade restrictions on the sale of AI accelerators to China haven't detered Nvidia from bringing its latest Blackwell architecture to the Middle Kingdom.citing unnamed sources, Nvidia is preparing yet another GPU for the Chinese market that is designed to slip under the US Commerce Department's performance limits.back at GTC in the spring. Compared to its prior-gen Hopper architecture, Nvidia claims its Blackwell-based chips is between 2.
As we understand it, a B20 accelerator would be capped at the same performance level, at least in terms of FP8 performance. Blackwell introduced support for FP4 data types and because of this, we expect the advertised teraFLOPS figure to be twice that of the H20 even though they "I'm telling you, if you redesign a chip around a particular cutline that enables them to do AI, I am going to control it the very next day," sheThe Biden Administration is now widely expected to enact more stringent export controls in the coming months to stifle Chinese AI development.