That was enough to comply with U.S. sanctions, though it did make the A800 essentially a worse A100. But a wrench was thrown into Nvidia's plans when the U.S. government revised its export rules ...

Nvidia introduced the A800 server GPU to customers in China last year as an alternative to its powerful A100 GPU because the latter part had been banned in the country by U.S. export restrictions.

These include its A100 and the more powerful H100 chip – whose exports to China and Hong Kong were banned in September 2022 – as well as the slower A800 and H800 chips Nvidia then developed ...

NVIDIA’s current high-end AI lineup for 2023, which utilizes HBM, includes models like the A100/A800 and H100/H800. In 2024, NVIDIA plans to refine its product portfolio further. New additions will ...