(Reuters) -Nvidia (NVDA) has informed some element suppliers to droop manufacturing of its H20 AI chip, designed particularly for the Chinese language market, the Data reported on Thursday, citing two folks with direct information of the communications.
In accordance with the report, Nvidia instructed Arizona-based Amkor Know-how to cease manufacturing of the H20 chips this week and likewise notified South Korea’s Samsung Electronics.
Amkor handles superior packaging for the chip, whereas Samsung Electronics provides high-bandwidth reminiscence chips for the mannequin.
Neither firms instantly responded to a Reuters request for remark.
In the meantime, Nvidia spokesperson mentioned in an announcement, “We continuously handle our provide chain to handle market situations.”
“As each governments recognise, the H20 shouldn’t be a army product or for presidency infrastructure. China will not depend on American chips for presidency operations, identical to the U.S. authorities wouldn’t depend on chips from China,” it mentioned.
This comes as Chinese language authorities final week summoned home firms, together with main web corporations Tencent and ByteDance, over their H20 chip purchases, expressing issues over info dangers.
(Reporting by Yazhini MV in Bengaluru; Modifying by Sumana Nandy)
