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2022 - 11 - 9

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Nvidia making new chip to suit US curbs on China (Taipei Times)

LIMITED PERFORMANCE: The A800 GPU, an alternative to the A100, meets the US' export rules regarding China, and cannot be reprogrammed, the US chipmaker said.

Foxconn — known as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co (鴻海精密) in Taiwan and Apple Inc’s principal subcontractor — has seen a surge in COVID-19 cases at its Zhengzhou site, leading the company to lock down the vast complex in a bid to keep the virus in check. DECLINE ENDS: The central bank softened its intervention in the local foreign exchange market by trading both ways as it sought to stabilize the NT dollar, a bank official said Taiwan’s foreign exchange reserves last month reached US$542.79 billion, rising US$1.69 billion from a month earlier and ending three months of decline on the back of bond yields and value gains in other reserve currencies, the central bank said on Friday. Hon Hai, also known as Foxconn Technology Group (富士康科技集團) internationally, said it is now “working with the [Chinese] government in a

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Nvidia Skirts U.S. Expert Controls to China with Alternative Chip (Data Center Knowledge)

Nvidia takes bold moves to skirt U.S. Commerce department export controls to China. Will its beleaguered chipmaking peers follow suit?

“The A800 meets the U.S. The A800 may just be the gap-filler for Nvidia. It is using these capabilities to monitor, track, and surveil their own citizens, and fuel its military modernization,” said Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration Thea D. With flagging sales and growing competition from the likes of AMD and Intel, the data center chip manufacturer had to make a bold move to turn around its fortunes. Now it’s one of the first semiconductor firms to design and offer a chip the meets U.S. export controls to China.

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