China Extends Restrictions to Nvidia’s Latest AI Chip Adapted for Local Market

The Chinese government again prohibits domestic companies in purchasing certain graphics cards or AI chips. In the new case, Nvidia’s latest Ki-GPU RTX 6000D is affected, which was actually specially adapted for the Chinese market.

China is now also prohibiting Nvidia’s new AI chips

The regulatory authority for internet and technology markets in China has by state order to prevent the purchase of NVDIA RTX Pro 6000D Ki-GPUs by companies in the country. The companies have to forego planned purchases and orders that have already been made must also be canceled, reports, among other things, the Financial Times.

According to the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), companies such as the Tikok owner bytedance and the online trade group Alibaba have to stop testing the use of the NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000D with immediate effect and give up their already orders. This is what the authors of the report of the Financial Times Economic Blatt of three sources from the environment of the companies concerned want to learn this.

Companies are said to have pre -ordered thousands of RTX 6000D

With the ban on buying the RTX Pro 6000D, the Chinese government is now working harder after concentrating with a previously imposed ban on the NVIDIA H20, which was the predecessor generation of the AI ​​GPUs for the Chinese market. The RTX Pro 6000D is already using the current “Blackwell” architecture and has been restricted in its performance so that Nvidia does not violate the limits set by the US government for the maximum performance of AI chips for export to China.

So far, however, the interest of Chinese customers in the new AI GPUs of this type has been low, it is said. Supposedly, however, various companies had already made preparations for the mass purchase of the RTX Pro 6000D to lose tens of thousands of units. In cooperation with server suppliers, tests have already been carried out, which now have to be stopped at the order of the CAC. In the meantime, despite the US sanctions, it is relatively easy in China to get powerful Nvidia graphics cards for AI applications, as the YouTube channel Gamer Nexus showed in a documentary.