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Nvidia reportedly pushed excess chips to China, Russia, and AI providers

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Nvidia reportedly faced a surplus of chips and opted to increase sales through various channels rather than reduce prices. The company allegedly pushed these chips into markets like China and Russia, while also incentivizing cloud providers, data centers, and AI service companies to rent their GPUs. This strategy aimed to monetize their excess inventory through cloud gaming, AI tokens, and other rental models, potentially influencing the perceived demand for AI services and data center expansion. AI

IMPACT Suggests potential oversupply and creative sales tactics in the GPU market, impacting AI infrastructure costs.

RANK_REASON The item is a user's interpretation and speculation about Nvidia's business strategy regarding chip oversupply, rather than a direct announcement or factual report.

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Nvidia reportedly pushed excess chips to China, Russia, and AI providers

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Okay, so from the scraps of info I collected - and assuming they're correct and factual - the NVIDIA had oversupply of chips. Instead of lowering their prices,

    Okay, so from the scraps of info I collected - and assuming they're correct and factual - the NVIDIA had oversupply of chips. Instead of lowering their prices, they did their best to make them reach China and Russia, and also sponsored neoclouds, datacentres and AI service provid…

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