U.S. delays Nvidia, AMD AI GPU export licenses to Middle East

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Amid a national security review, the U.S. government has delayed granting export licenses to designers of advanced processors for AI workloads, such as AMD and Nvidia, for shipments to the Middle East. The U.S. government is concerned that GPUs for AI and HPC workloads could be resold to China; accessed by Chinese entities in the cloud to train large language models; or used to develop military equipment. 

For obvious reasons, this greatly affects businesses of AMD, Nvidia, and other developers of similar hardware, reports Bloomberg.