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Chinese authorities have reportedly let local orgs know they should satisfy their need for AI accelerators by shopping locally – not from Nvidia. A South China Morning Post report cites two anonymous sources indicating officials have let buyers know that they should put Huawei at the top of their shopping lists for AI …

  1. PCScreenOnly

    Says a lot about Microsoft's AI if LinkedIn gets it from Fujitsu and not it's parent

    1. Irongut Silver badge

      Says a lot about your reading comprehension skills that you totally misunderstood that sentence.

      "human resource development" - Also known as training courses.

  2. martinusher Silver badge

    That's what happens when you start being an unreliable supplier

    Although NVidia has done its best to steer a path between the US government's restrictions and the customer base in China its being screwed over by the US because as soon as the Chinese start finding something useful our Gina will promptly ban it. No appeal. No questions. Just a diktat.

    So we're stuck with a lose/lose. The Chinese government is merely saying that using NVidia's products is too risky so they should rely only on locally sourced ones. They're not going to be as good in the short term but as we've found out time and again, the operative term is "in the short term".

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