China’s Internet regulator has ordered top technology firms to halt purchases of Nvidia Corp’s artificial intelligence (AI) chips and cancel existing orders as part of a broader push to cut reliance on US technology, the Financial Times reported yesterday.
Shares of the US company were down 1 percent in premarket trading.
Successive US administrations have restricted China’s access to advanced chips, prompting Beijing to press domestic firms to turn away from US suppliers, hitting industry leaders such as Nvidia.
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The move comes days after China accused the company of contravening its anti-monopoly law, marking the latest flare-up in Beijing’s trade war with Washington.
The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) directed companies including ByteDance Ltd (字節跳動) and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (阿里巴巴) this week to terminate their testing and orders of the RTX Pro 6000D, the report said, citing three people with knowledge of the matter.
The fresh ban is stronger than the earlier guidance from regulators that focused on the H20, the previous version of Nvidia’s China-tailored AI chip, the report said.
Nvidia, Alibaba and Bytedance did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comment.
Nvidia’s RTX6000D, its newest graphics processing unit for use in AI tailored for the Chinese market, has received only lukewarm demand with some major tech firms opting not to place orders.
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, the Financial Times reported.
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