Following the revelation on September 1 that the US are restricting Nvidia’s and AMD’s AI GPUs to China, Nvidia has followed up with an update that the US government has already greenlighted the export of A100 GPUs to China. The license will remain effective until March 1, 2023. Regarding H100, Nvidia stated that “the US government has authorized exports, re-exports and in-country transfer needed to continue Nvidia’s development of H100 integrated circuits.” While the Chinese high-tech industry might have been temporarily allowed to catch a short breath, alarm has been sounded over the long-term prospect of its GPU sector. Talking to the Chinese tech media Ijiwei, Jing Zhu, the vice president of Beijing Semiconductor Industry Association, observed that the latest restrictions placed on GPU import was a continuation of the US’ earlier effort to strike China’s HPC industry.