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China tells its tech companies they can’t buy AI chips from Nivida


After strongly discouraging tech companies from buying Nivdia's AI chips in August, the country is now banning the practice outright.

The agency also told tech companies including ByteDance and Alibaba to stop testing and ordering Nvidia’s RTX Pro 6000D server, a device designed specifically for the market in China. Huang said Nvidia was going to endure$8 billion of revenue loss, in the second quarter alone, by not being able to sell its H20 AI chips in China, on the company’s first-quarter earnings call. But as of Nvidia’s latest earnings, the company had yet to sell any units to Chinese customers under the plan, citing the slow implementation of President Trump’s proposal.

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