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Nvidia has instructed data center partners worldwide to keep Chinese customers below half their cloud computing business, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
The Financial Times reports that Nvidia’s sales force and regional teams have spent the summer verbally passing along a new rule to data center partners: sell at least 51 percent of cloud computing services to non-Chinese companies. No such restriction existed before. The instructions were never put in writing, people familiar with the rules said, and they apply globally rather than just to data centers in Asia, according to two people familiar with the matter. The rule covers only future contracts; existing leasing agreements are untouched.
Sources describe the move as pre-emptive, meant to head off criticism from U.S. lawmakers and other critics of Nvidia’s approach to China before it escalates further. Washington has been trying to close off routes that let intermediaries build a black market for Nvidia chips in China, and to stop Chinese companies from reaching advanced chips indirectly through overseas leasing deals.
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