PALO ALTO, California/TAIPEI/HONG KONG — Nvidia will start shipping a modified Hopper-series chip for artificial intelligence applications to customers in China in coming months, its latest effort to stay in the Chinese market as Huawei steps up its own AI chip offerings and the U.S. tightens export restrictions, Nikkei Asia has learned.
The new chip will be a further downgraded Hopper chip that will not come with high-bandwidth memory (HBM), a type of memory chip that is optimized for high-performance computing tasks like AI and supercomputing, according to three people familiar with the matter. The new chip will instead use GDDR7 (graphic double data rate) memory, in compliance with the U.S. export restrictions, according to one of the people.
