Beijing has accused the United States of abusing export controls to suppress Chinese companies. One, named the H800, has as much computing power at some settings used in AI work as the company's more powerful but blocked H100 chip. "Chips meant for consumer products like laptops will be exempt from the new curbs, the official said. This would likely mean the speed at which AI chips talk to each other would be reduced.This is important because training the largest AI models is impossible on one chip and requires many chips tied together. The U.S. will require companies to notify the government about semiconductors whose performance is just below the guidelines before they are shipped to China, the official said.

Source: Economic Times October 16, 2023 08:33 UTC