Nvidia GeForced out of China as Beijing demands tech titans embrace homegrown silicon

Nvidia has reportedly been cut off from the Chinese market after regulators in Beijing ordered the nation's top tech companies to suspend testing and cancel orders of the GPU giant's accelerators.

China's Cyberspace Administration ordered Alibaba, ByteDance, and unnamed others not to order Nvidia's RTX Pro 6000D Blackwell GPUs, unnamed sources familiar with the matter told the Financial Times this week.

The card, a nerfed version of Nvidia's RTX Pro 6000 GPUs designed to limbo under performance caps on AI accelerator exports to China, has been rumored to be in development for more than a year now.

As we've previously written, US export rules mean Nvidia must limit the card to approximately 581 teraFLOPS of FP4 and 1.4TB/s of memory bandwidth. While faster at 4-bit precision, the card’s performance will be roughly equivalent with an H20 at high precision with less ...