The U.S. Department of Commerce issued a ban on Chinese self-driving truck company TuSimple and did not allow it to ship 24 NVIDIA A100 GPU chips from the United States to Australia.Australia is not on the U.S. embargo list for high-performance GPUs, butThe U.S. government is worried that this batch of A100 chips may eventually be diverted to China.
TuSimple originally planned to send this batch of chips to its subsidiary in Australia to improve the autonomous driving technology of its semi-trailers, and emphasized that they would not be sent to China.
TuSimple Technology also explained that due to various reasons, they are reducing their business in the US market, so they need to transfer some assets of the US subsidiary to the Australian subsidiary.
The U.S. Department of Commerce, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and the U.S. national security expert team conducted a collective investigation into this behavior for several weeks, and finally determined that it violated export control regulations and may transfer technology to China, so shipments are not allowed.
Prior to this, the U.S. government also required TuSimple to completely separate its U.S. operations from its Chinese operations. In desperation, TuSimple Technology has decided to delist from Nasdaq, thus exempting it from future disclosure obligations.