US officials have slowed the issuing of licenses to chipmakers such as Nvidia Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. for large-scale AI accelerator shipments to the Middle East, according to people familiar with the matter,

The development will come as a huge relief to Intel, AMD, and others, who felt that any direct engagement with Nvidia will deprive them of the opportunity to participate in the programme. Continue reading GPUs are essential for creating AI models as these require large-scale computing,

See the 10 stocks » The Truth Behind Nvidia's AI Chip Shortage was originally published by The Motley Fool The "Ultra Accelerator Link," is an attempt to establish an open standard for communication between artificial intelligence accelerators - systems that can help process the vast amounts of data employed in AI tasks.