Nvidia Asks Cloud Customers to Cut Back on Chinese Business
Nvidia has told some cloud customers to take on less business from Chinese companies. The move matters for cloud providers that rent out Nvidia chips to other firms. It shows how AI hardware is caught up in US-China tensions, and how chip access is becoming a political question as well as a business one.
Quick glossaryNvidia, cloud customers
- Nvidia
- A US chip maker, based in California, best known for graphics processors that power most modern AI systems.
- cloud customers
- Businesses that rent computing power and data storage over the internet from large remote data centres instead of owning their own.
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