The ‘Suboptimal Solution’ in Chip Competition: The Economic Reconstruction Behind the H20 Export Ban Lift
A data center in Zhongguancun, Beijing, tests a newly arrived cluster of NVIDIA H20 chips. Performance reports indicate: single card FP32 computing power of 9.2 TFLOPS, which is only 32% of the A100 chip from three years ago. This seemingly compromised product, however, writes an intriguing chapter in the history of global semiconductors. 1. The … Read more