Over 1m gaming and workstation chips repurposed for AI as China's Nvidia gap persists to 2030

zijing_wu · x · 2026-10-13

Part two of a three-part series on China's uphill battle to wean tech firms off Nvidia chips: more than 1 million gaming and workstation GPUs were repurposed for AI work this year as demand far exceeds supply, and the gap is expected to persist until 2030.

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