Intel reveals modified-for-China Gaudi 3 AI chips, with a 92% performance drop compared to original

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Due to US export restrictions, high-performance AI chips need a computing performance below 4,800 TPP (total processing power) to be eligible for export to China. This implies that the 16-bit performance of the Chinese editions of the Gaudi 3 chips will not exceed 150 teraflops. Similar to the Nvidia’s Chinese-edition H20 chip, the two modified Intel chips will offer a 148 teraflops of FP16/BF16 performance, just below the permitted limit. Context: In the first quarter of 2024, Nvidia strategically re-entered the Chinese market with the H20 AI chip. In terms of performance, the modified-for-China H20 chip’s AI computing power is slightly less than 15% of the H100, the original version of the chip available in the rest of the world.