China Reportedly Bars ByteDance from Using Nvidia Chips
Regulators order TikTok parent to pivot to domestic silicon for new data centers
Chinese regulators have directed ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, to halt the use of Nvidia chips in its new data centers, according to a report published by The Information. The directive effectively forces one of Nvidia’s largest Chinese customers to switch to domestic hardware providers, accelerating the technological decoupling between the U.S. and China.
Forced Decoupling
ByteDance had reportedly been stockpiling Nvidia GPUs to safeguard its recommendation algorithms against potential U.S. export controls. * The Directive: The new rule applies to the construction of new data center capacity, requiring the company to source chips from Chinese manufacturers like Huawei …
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