- Nvidia predicts $ 5.5 billion in H20 export costs to China and other countries
- H20 fleas were already supposed to be optimized for the Chinese market
- The company’s shares are down, market capitalization remains less than 3 dollars of dollars
NVIDIA faces a massive quarterly charge of $ 5.5 billion due to new American export restrictions on its H20 chips intended for China and other destinations, the actions of the company falling after the revelation.
From April 9, the American government forced a license for Nvidia to export H20 fleas to certain countries, without fixed end date, marking an expensive change for the flea manufacturer.
The affected countries are China (including Hong Kong and Macao) and the D5 countries-the United Kingdom, South Korea, Estonia, New Zealand and Israel.
“The first quarter results should include up to around 5.5 billion dollars in costs associated with H20 products for stocks, purchase commitments and related reserves,” said NVIDIA in a dryer’s file.
The technology giant noted that the license mandated by the government “approaches the risk that the products covered can be used or diverted on a supercaluler in China” – the fourth largest NVIDIA market by sale after states CNBC).
The H20 fleas are less advanced versions of the H100 / H200 H100 / H200 chips from NVIDIA, using Hopper 2022 architecture, designed specifically to comply with American export restrictions now dated for the Chinese market. In other regions, the company is now focusing on Next-Generon’s Blackwell fleas.
In addition, NVIDIA leaders spoke of the effects of the current trade war.
“Although masked under the guise of an” antichina “measure, these rules would do nothing to improve American security,” said government vice-president Ned Finkle in the last days of Biden in power, before Trump’s prices took into force.
NVIDIA shares are now $ 112.20, down compared to a one -year summit of $ 153.13. After having spent two short periods as the most precious company in the world, Nvidia’s market capitalization of 2.737 billions of dollars now puts it in third position behind Microsoft, with Apple in first place and the only current company of $ 3 billion (roughly).
