According to the Financial Times, Chinese cloud providers offer access to servers equipped with Nvidia A100 chips for around $6 per hour, while American providers charge around $10 for the same configuration.
This price range suggests that Nvidia chips are still available in China, despite the US limiting sales of the A100 and H100 models in the country from the end of 2022. These chips are critical for training large language models.
The chips are even being sold openly on Chinese e-commerce platforms such as Xiaohongshu and Taobao, with sellers on the electronics market reportedly removing serial numbers to avoid detection.
The company says it sells its chips in compliance with U.S. export controls, but acknowledges that secondary markets can sometimes bypass those restrictions.
Source: Ferra
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