Nvidia may have a ‘plan’ to bypass US export rule for AI chips

Nvidia is reportedly planning to tweak the design of its artificial intelligence (AI) chips to avoid U.S. export rules. According to a report by The Information, the chip maker has told some of its biggest Chinese customers including Alibaba Group, TikTok-parent ByteDance and Tencent Holdings about it. The report quotes three people involved in the conversations who said that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has already informed customers about his plans while on his trip to Beijing.

Huang visited Beijing in mid-April, just days after the U.S. government tightened restrictions on the export of advanced AI chips to China.