Chinese tech giants ramp up Nvidia chip purchases in Q1

April 2, 2025, 9:21 pm

Major Chinese firms have significantly stepped up their acquisition of Nvidia’s cutting‐edge chips for AI despite tightening US export controls. The reported surge—in the form of a $16 billion purchase and boosted buying multiples—highlights a strategic drive to reinforce domestic AI capabilities and maintain competitive momentum in a dynamic global market.

tomshardware.com / Chinese tech giants boosted Nvidia GPU purchases by 4x to 6x during Q1

Chinese tech giants continue to buy Nvidia AI GPUs despite DeepSeek impact, demand slowdown.

bleepingcomputer.com / ChatGPT is down worldwide with something went wrong error

ChatGPT, the famous artificial intelligence chatbot that allows users to converse with various personalities and topics, has connectivity issues worldwide. [...]

tomshardware.com / Amazon reserves RTX 5070, RTX 9070 XT GPUs as Amazon Prime exclusives, to the dismay of scalpers

Club386 has reportedly discovered a selection of RTX 5070 and RTX 9070 XT graphics card listings over at Amazon reserved exclusively for Amazon Prime members.

techspot.com / Amazon restricts some Nvidia GeForce RTX 5000 and AMD Radeon RX 9070 GPU sales to Prime members

Several companies have implemented ways of trying to stop scalpers and bots from grabbing the latest graphics cards as soon as they're in stock.Read Entire Article

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