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Compliance-only chips refer to the performance-reduced models (such as A800, H800, H20, etc.) that NVIDIA launched specifically for the Chinese market to meet U.S. export control requirements, circumventing control thresholds by reducing interconnect bandwidth or compute density, while remaining fully compatible with the software ecosystem.
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10/21/2026
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Valid until: 1/19/2027
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