NVIDIA's China-specific accelerators are not unknown by now, and the last export-modified accelerator the company prepared was H20, which recently got an export license. However, Chinese AI labs are on the lookout for a more performant design, and NVIDIA is here to deliver. According to Reuters, NVIDIA has designed a new SKU called B30A, based on the B300 "Blackwell Ultra." Designed as a single-die design, it takes the same base die from the dual-die B300, and just embeds a single one onto the package for half the performance to comply with export regulations.

As the Blackwell Ultra, in its B300 dual-die configuration, features 15 TeraFLOPS of FP4, 7.5 TeraFLOPS at FP6/FP8, 3.75 TeraFLOPS at FP16/BF16, and 1.88 TeraFLOPS at TF32 precision, we can expect the single-die B30A to halve these numbers. Additionally, NVIDIA will not skimp on the mission-critical features like HBM and NVLink, which enable AI training and inference in a much easier way. These chips may be sufficient to counter any current Chinese-designed AI accelerator with a superior software stack and higher performance. As the U.S. administration decided to grant NVIDIA access to the export license , NVIDIA is again serving the Chinese market with a high-performance accelerator for their domestic needs and AI labs.