Nvidia A100 and H100 AI chips are cheaper to rent in China than in the US, a sign the advanced processors are easily reaching China despite US export restrictions, the FT reports.
Noting 4 small China cloud providers charge local tech groups US$6 an hour to use a server with eight Nvidia A100 processors in a base configuration.
The same costs $10 in the US. Nvidia H100 GPUs are also readily available.
One China cloud vendor said higher prices paid for smuggled Nvidia chips are offset by cheap engineers and cheap power. $NVDA $TSM #semiconductors #semiconductor
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