NVIDIA's H100 accelerator is renowned for its powerful ability to support AI workloads, making it a highly coveted product. However, exporting US-made products to certain countries such as China can ... Nvidia modifies its H100 Hopper GPU and markets it as the H800 to Chinese market
Seems strange that gimping the hardware slightly allows it to pass some export restriction. Sounds like a problem with the export restriction itself. Would be like a ban on selling nuclear ICBM to North Korea could be allowed if you just sell them a slightly slower ICBM instead.
