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Nvidia and AMD say they face new restrictions in some Middle Eastern countries, Reuters <\/em>reports. This widens the restrictions on these chips beyond China and Russia. The new licensing requirement applies to \u201ca subset\u201d of Nvidia\u2019s top-end chips, the company said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n In response, the Biden administration said it \u201chas not blocked\u201d chip sales to the Middle East, Reuters<\/em> reports. \u201cThe Commerce Department declined to comment on whether it had imposed new requirements on specific U.S. companies,\u201d Reuters<\/em> writes. The Commerce Department, Nvidia, and AMD didn\u2019t immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n There are also now licensing requirements to export a wide array of products, including networking products, destined for certain end users and for certain end uses in China. During the second quarter of fiscal year 2024, the USG [US government] also informed us of an additional licensing requirement for a subset of A100 and H100 products destined to certain customers and other regions, including some countries in the Middle East<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n Nvidia added that it didn\u2019t anticipate the constraints would have \u201can immediate material impact.\u201d AMD received a letter \u201cwith similar restrictions,\u201d Reuters<\/em> says. No specific countries were named, and there was no explanation for the restrictions in Nvidia\u2019s regulatory filing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Nvidia\u2019s A100 and H100 chips\u00a0have been the subject of export restrictions by the Biden administration, which seems specifically concerned about their use in China in military applications. Previously, the US government told Nvidia that it wants to \u201caddress the risk that the covered products may be used in, or diverted to, a \u2018military end use\u2019 or \u2018military end user\u2019 in China and Russia.\u201d In the most recent filing, Nvidia says there is a risk that \u201cour results and competitive position may be harmed, and we may be effectively excluded from all or part of the China market if there are further changes\u201d in export controls.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Nvidia\u2019s H100 chips are valuable enough that startups can use them as collateral for loans. \u201cI\u2019ve spent this week talking with sources throughout the AI industry, from the big AI labs to cloud providers and small startups, and come away with this: everyone is operating under the assumption that H100s will be nearly impossible to get through at least the first half of next year,\u201d our own Alex Heath has reported. \u201cThe lead time for new orders, if you can get them, is roughly six months, or an eternity in the AI space.\u201c<\/p>\n<\/div>\n [ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [ad_1] Nvidia and AMD say they face new restrictions in some Middle Eastern countries, Reuters reports. This widens the restrictions on these chips beyond China and Russia. The new licensing requirement applies to \u201ca subset\u201d of Nvidia\u2019s top-end chips, the company said. In response, the Biden administration said it \u201chas not blocked\u201d chip sales to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5892"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n