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• This shows up in the form of lower core count, 14,592 CUDA cores versus 16,384 on versions sold outside of China.Nvidia also told The Register today the card's tensor core count has also been been cut down by a similar margin from 512 to 456 on the 4090D variant..
• In late 2022, following a wave of restrictions on the sale of AI accelerators in China, the American giant cut down the interconnect speed of its popular A100 units and relaunched it as the A800..
• The L2, L20, and H20 limbo danced right under Washington’s performance caps.Nvidia's antics quickly caught the attention of US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo who warned chipmakers against testing those bans..
• )The fresh round of export restrictions announced in October saw Nvidia again deliver chips designed for the Chinese market..
• The card was followed by a new version of the H100, predictably called the H800..
• (Eight is the luckiest number in Chinese numerology: the naming of the A800 and H800 was no accident..