The United States Department of Commerce said on Aug. 31 that the Biden administration has “not blocked chip sales to the Middle East,” according to a report from Reuters.
This comes after disclosures were revealed in a Nvidia report that the U.S. government had expanded requirements for export licenses for artificial intelligence (AI) chips.
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), a direct competitor of Nvidia, also received a similar letter from regulators.
The Department of Commerce did not comment on whether the requirements were imposed on specific U.S. companies. However, the new rules would require Nvidia and AMD to obtain licenses before selling flagship chips to “some Middle Eastern countries,” according to the filing.
Neither of the two companies has revealed if they have applied for said licenses or if there was any feedback on licensing for that region.
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Nvidia warned regulators in its quarterly report that being “effectively excluded from all or part of China” could potentially “harm” long-term results for the company.
In October 2022, the Biden administration issued the initial export controls in an effort to slow China from developing high-level AI systems with powerful semiconductor chips made by U.S. companies.
Officials in Washington said they are considering tightening the aforementioned regulations even more in a statement made on June 29, which would further limi
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