The U.S. government ordered two of its leading Artificial Intelligence (AI) chip manufacturers to stop selling part of their products to the Chinese regime. On Aug. 31, AMD and NVIDIA reported receiving orders from the U.S. executive to stop exporting chips to China. The ban affects NVIDIA’s A100, NVIDIA’s H100, and AMD’s MI250 integrated circuits. These high-end chips accelerate automatic recognition tasks for human surveillance. NVIDIA is in talks to provide alternative chips that are not affected by these restrictions. And it estimates that the new regulations will affect about $400 million of potential sales in the third quarter of…