That's not what NVIDIA claimed, that's what I have personally verified.
> there's a reason why h800 were included last minute
No. Oct 22 restrictions are by itself significantly easier than Oct 23 one. NVIDIA just need to kill 4 NVLink lanes off A100 and you get A800. For H100 you kill some more NVLink until on paper NVLink bandwidth is roughly at A800 level again and then voila.
BIS is certainly pissed off by NVIDIA's attempt at being creative to sell the best possible product to China. So they actually lowered allowed compute number AGAIN in Oct 23. That's what killed H800.
> there's a reason why h800 were included last minute
No. Oct 22 restrictions are by itself significantly easier than Oct 23 one. NVIDIA just need to kill 4 NVLink lanes off A100 and you get A800. For H100 you kill some more NVLink until on paper NVLink bandwidth is roughly at A800 level again and then voila.
BIS is certainly pissed off by NVIDIA's attempt at being creative to sell the best possible product to China. So they actually lowered allowed compute number AGAIN in Oct 23. That's what killed H800.