# NVIDIA launches the A100 datacenter GPU

Date: 2020

## The fact

In May 2020 NVIDIA launched the A100, a completed Ampere datacenter instrument under Huang that later sat under 2022 BIS controls.

## Context

Neighbouring Volta is 2017. Neighbouring Mellanox close is April 2020. Neighbouring BIS 2022 is later law. He did not write an EAR clause.

Volta 2017 is neighbouring. Mellanox April 2020 is neighbouring interconnect. BIS October 2022 is later export law.

[Jensen Huang](/people/jensen-huang) has been NVIDIA’s co-founder and CEO since April 1993. He does not write a BIS Entity List, a Commission DMA article, a TSMC fab act, a Chinese CAC circular, or a French Autorité decision. A GTC keynote is not a completed export licence. A subpoena is not a conviction. CUDA is not a court finding of monopoly unless a court so found. TSMC fabricates; hyperscalers buy; Beijing and Washington write the licence. Keep those dates separate. A Greenpeace cake is not a unique ppm. A DOE supercomputer is not a unique arsenal coefficient as his personal tally.

## Evidence and sources

NVIDIA carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [industrial-policy activism](/drivers/industrial-policy-activism): a completed A100 launch is an AI-training-capacity instrument later constrained by export law stored on other dates.

## What is established and what is not

Established: May 2020 A100 launch, independently reported.

Not established: that 2022 chatbots were this SKU alone, or a unique later energy coefficient from the press page.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

TSMC fabricated. Clouds bought. BIS later wrote controls as neighbouring law.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies NVIDIA launches the A100 datacenter GPU, not a later speech about NVIDIA launches the A100 datacenter GPU.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. NVIDIA launches the A100 datacenter GPU on 2020-05-14 is not a licence to treat every later NVIDIA communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average NVIDIA launches the A100 datacenter GPU into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He launched as CEO. TSMC fabricated. Clouds bought. BIS later wrote controls as neighbouring law. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Jensen Huang: https://factrail.ai/people/jensen-huang

## Drivers

- Industrial-Policy Activism: https://factrail.ai/drivers/industrial-policy-activism
- Energy Security: https://factrail.ai/drivers/energy-security

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nvidia-a100-idUSKBN22Q0K4
- https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/nvda-a100-2020