The H800 chip differs from the H100 in that Nvidia significantly reduced chip-to-chip data transfer rates to get around U.S. export restrictions to China. That means the H800 is less powerful than ...

which are two generations prior to the current Blackwell chip. DeepSeek also reportedly has a cluster of Nvidia H800s, which is a capped, or slowed, version of the Nvidia H100 designed for the ...

Nvidia's GPUs remain the best solutions for AI training, but Huawei's own processors can be used for inference.

That policy came under scrutiny this week when Chinese startup DeepSeek achieved widespread adoption of its latest AI model that was developed without access to Nvidia's export-blocked H100 chips.

DeepSeek AI's covert use of Nvidia's powerful H100 chips has ignited controversy within the tech industry. The startup is said to be using 50,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs, despite US export restrictions ...