Commerce secretary to crack down on Nvidia AI chips redesigned to get around trade curbs

Commerce secretary to crack down on Nvidia AI chips redesigned to get around trade curbs

Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo put companies like Nvidia that manufacture artificial intelligence (AI) chips on notice that the agency will move to quickly crack down on redesigned chips intended to get around export controls that apply to adversarial countries like China. The Commerce Department has put in place export controls designed to restrict the most advanced AI chips from being sold to countries like China where they could serve a …