Nvidia has allegedly stopped taking orders for its China-specific HGX H20 GPUs used in AI and HPC applications, reports Cailian News Agency (CNA) citing a distributor source. This may signal that the processor has been discontinued due to slow demand, or the U.S. government's new export rules that ban its sales to Chinese entities, or Nvidia is about to roll-out another China-specific GPU for AI workloads. As the news comes from two unofficial sources, we must be skeptical until more official news surfaces.
"We need to go through dealers to place orders with Nvidia," a spokesperson for a terminal manufacturer told Cailian News Agency. "Recently, many dealers have said that they will no longer accept H20 orders, and some have said that they can take orders in stock. […] Some dealers who don't take orders now may be betting on whether the H20 will be discontinued in the near future. If so, they will sell it at a higher price."
