China bans its companies from buying chips from US company Nvidia

No sooner does one issue seem on the verge of being resolved between the United States and China than another resurfaces, as if the tension between Washington and Beijing must be maintained permanently. After TikTok, whose version available in the United States is expected to be transferred to the American flag, the Nvidia issue is back in the spotlight. The supplier of the most powerful electronic chips for artificial intelligence (AI) finds itself at the center of the confrontation between the two powers.

China's cybersecurity regulator (SAMR) has ordered major tech companies not to buy one of Nvidia's new chips, dubbed the RTX Pro 6000D, designed for industrial artificial intelligence applications and with limited performance, to avoid falling foul of US export embargoes. This new ban, revealed Wednesday, September 17 by the Financial Times , comes as the SAMR claimed Monday that Nvidia had "violated China's anti-monopoly law," an accusation the company denied the following day. It also comes just weeks after Chinese tech giants were also ordered to stop orders for another model of Nvidia chip, the H20.

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