China Tells Its Tech Companies To Stop Buying All of Nvidia's AI Chips (ft.com)
(Wednesday September 17, 2025 @04:43AM (msmash)
from the breaking-news dept.)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/09/17/0843228/china-tells-its-tech-companies-to-stop-buying-all-of-nvidias-ai-chips
- Source link: https://www.ft.com/content/12adf92d-3e34-428a-8d61-c9169511915c
China's internet regulator has told the country's biggest technology companies to [1]stop buying all of Nvidia's artificial intelligence chips and terminate their existing orders, as Beijing steps up efforts to boost its homegrown semiconductor industry and compete with the US. From a report:
> The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) informed companies including ByteDance and Alibaba this week to terminate their testing and orders of the RTX Pro 6000D, Nvidia's tailor-made product for the country introduced two months ago, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.
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> Several companies had indicated they would order tens of thousands of the RTX Pro 6000D, and had started testing and verification work with Nvidia's server suppliers before telling them to stop the work after receiving the CAC order, said the people.
[1] https://www.ft.com/content/12adf92d-3e34-428a-8d61-c9169511915c
> The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) informed companies including ByteDance and Alibaba this week to terminate their testing and orders of the RTX Pro 6000D, Nvidia's tailor-made product for the country introduced two months ago, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.
>
> Several companies had indicated they would order tens of thousands of the RTX Pro 6000D, and had started testing and verification work with Nvidia's server suppliers before telling them to stop the work after receiving the CAC order, said the people.
[1] https://www.ft.com/content/12adf92d-3e34-428a-8d61-c9169511915c
Smuggling (Score:2)
by DrMrLordX ( 559371 )
Let the smuggling commence! Oh wait it already has.
Communist gonna communist (Score:4, Interesting)
When under sanctions, instead of acknowledging reality, the communist party tells the companies to not buy sanctioned goods.
Of course the useful bots parrot such propaganda to the world
Re: (Score:2)
And this is somehow completely different than the US forcing the regulation and sale of tiktok?
Nvidia hasn't sold a whole lot of chips to China (directly) in the last year anyway and it sounds like the bulk of their product are sold to a couple of cloud whales in the US based on their last quarterly. I interpret this as blowback from the Trump Tariff crap fest and tiktok regulation but maybe its more insidious than that, though I can't imagine its more insidious than our Trade Wars 2025.
Re: (Score:2)
How's the tariffs going, old chap? Is Amazon finally allowed to pass the costs on to the consumers or is Bezos still supposed to take a hit because Trump told him so for the last 6 months?
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No, this makes complete economic sense. It boosts their domestic chip design and manufacturing, it cuts out the US of potentially compromised US hardware, and it doesn't come with any really major disadvantages for Chinese AI companies that are already at the head of the pack globally.
Remember that the Chinese AI chips are less efficient and slower than Nvidia ones (for now), but those are things that can be overcome simply by having more of them and extremely cheap energy. China has cheap energy thanks to