NVIDIA stated that the shares of computer chip manufacturers slipped in the early hours of Wednesday, as Nvidia stated that it would be an additional cost of US $ 5.5 billion under the control of the US government on the export of computer chips used for artificial intelligence.
The company, which announced on Monday that it would produce its artificial intelligence supercomputer in the United States for the first time, the government stated that its H20 integrated circuit and other of the same bandwidth would be subject to the “license requirements for the uncertain future.”
In a regulatory filing, he said that the government said that controls have addressed risks that products “can be used or diverted in a supercomputer in China.”
Nvidia shares fell 5.8 percent in pre-market trading. The stock fell by 6.5 percent in rival chip maker AMD.
Asian technology giants also saw a major decline. In Tokyo, the shares of the testing tool manufacturer Adventest fell by 6.7 percent, Disco Corp fell 7.6 percent and TSMC of Taiwan fell 2.4 percent.
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After the news of the new controls Sen, Sen Elizabeth Warren urged Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik to urge Novidia’s H20 and other advanced AI chips to ban.
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Warren wrote in a letter posted on the banking, housing and urban affairs website of the US Senate Committee, “I write with great concern about those reports that the Commerce Department has stopped its plan to restrict the exports of powerful advanced AI chips like People’s Republic of China (PRC),” Waren has stopped its plan, “Waren has stopped its plan,” Waren has stopped the website of banking, housing and urinary affairs It is written in a letter posted.
It said that former President Joe Biden did not include H20 chips under control, which was placed on the export of advanced AI chips to his administration.
The emergence of China’s Deepsek AI Chatbot in January expressed concern on how China can use advanced chips to help develop its AI abilities.
Commerce department officials were not immediately available for comments in the early hours of Wednesday.
Nvidia said that on Monday, it has commissioned more than a million square foot manufacturing space for the manufacture and testing of its special blackwell chips and AI supercomputers in Arizona in Texas – an investment part said that the company said that the AI infrastructure would produce up to half -trillion dollars in the next four years.
President Donald Trump and other officials stated that tariff discount on electronics such as smartphones and laptops was only a temporary repetition, until the authorities were announced after not developing a new tariff approach specific to the semiconductor industry.
Trump claimed NVidia’s decision as a win to expand manufacturing in the US.
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