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 ...

Using the same Ampere architecture that powers the A100, Nvidia introduced the A800 to Chinese customers a year ago, sidestepping U.S. export restrictions at the time by designing the GPU to offer ...

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 ...

In late 2022, the US implemented restrictions on exporting high-end GPU models such as the Nvidia A100 and H100 to China ... Nvidia developed the A800 and H800 models with reduced capabilities ...