NVIDIA and AMD, makers of advanced GPUs used in HPC-AI workloads, became embroiled this week in the deteriorating relations and ongoing trade war between the US and the People’s Republic of China. Yesterday, Nvidia said it has been prohibited by the US government from selling to the PRC its A100 Tensor Core GPU, on the market since 2020, as well as its forthcoming H100 Tensor Core GPU, scheduled for availability in Q3 2022. According to news stories, Nvidia could take a sales revenue hit of $400 million per quarter, though the company can continue to develop the H100 with its...