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China has halted the sale of Nvidia's AI chips after regulators summoned major domestic firms, including Huawei, Cambricon, Alibaba and Baidu, to compare their own processors with Nvidia's limited‑supply products. Officials concluded that Chinese AI chips now match or exceed the performance of the Nvidia chips allowed under U.S. export controls, prompting a consensus that domestic supply can meet demand without further Nvidia imports. Nvidia recently introduced the RTX Pro 6000D in Beijing, while regulators warned companies against purchasing Nvidia’s H20 chip, signalling a tightening of restrictions on foreign AI hardware. Ler mais

Nvidia has risen to global leadership in artificial‑intelligence chips, but its success has placed it at the center of escalating trade tensions between the United States and China. Successive U.S. administrations have imposed export controls that require Nvidia to ship reduced‑specification GPUs to China, spurring a black‑market for higher‑performance units. The Trump administration blocked sales of Nvidia’s H20 chip, a product designed for the Chinese market, before a deal allowed limited sales in exchange for a 15 percent revenue share to the U.S. government. Chinese regulators have since warned domestic firms against purchasing the H20, adding uncertainty to Nvidia’s Chinese business. CEO Jensen Huang has publicly criticized the U.S. curbs, calling them a failure that accelerates Chinese rivals’ development. Both Nvidia and China’s State Administration for Market Regulation declined comment. Ler mais