As President Trump, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, and other executives make their way to China, the US has purportedly decided to ease restrictions on the sales of NVIDIA's older AI GPUs to China. With reports suggesting that the H200 chips are now available for order for several Chinese companies, a storefront on the Chinese retailer JD surfaced with more advanced chips available for sale. This page showed slots open for the RTX 5090 32G Turbo Edition, which is one of the most advanced GPUs available in the market and is still officially subject to sanctions.
US' China Chip Sanctions Reports Accompanied By "Banned" Consumer NVIDIA GPUs On JD Storefront, Which Are Most Likely Smuggled
According to the listing on the storefront spotted by users on X, several of NVIDIA's advanced GPUs were listed for sale before being taken down. The three chips, which are the RTX 5090 32GB Blower, the RTX PRO 6000 96GB Server, and the RTX PRO 6000 96GB Desktop, were available for 35,999 CNY, 91,999 CNY, and 76,999 CNY, respectively.
However, the listings were taken down soon, and as of now, there is no indication that the chips will be available for sale in China. The three GPUs are based on NVIDIA's advanced Blackwell design, and are due to their potential to be used for advanced computing applications. Do note that RTX 5090 and RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell are officially banned from sales in China, and there are China-specific models that are sold, such as the RTX 5090D v2.
While the chips were available for sale, their listings were on a third-party storefront, which implies that NVIDIA is not directly involved in their sales. Instead, it is likely that the chips would make their way into China through unofficial sources.
The listing comes as President Donald Trump and NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang are in China as part of the President's visit to the East Asian country. As Trump and other executives were on their way, a report from Reuters claimed that the US had cleared ten Chinese companies to be able to buy the advanced H200 AI GPU.
The H200 is not the latest NVIDIA AI chip, and the list of companies approved to purchase the chips includes the Chinese technology giants ByteDance, JD, Tencent, and Alibaba. Additionally, distributors, including Foxconn and Lenovo, have also been approved, along with approval for buyers seeking to buy the chips directly from NVIDIA. While the US and Chinese governments declined or did not reply to requests for comments, Lenovo confirmed to Reuters that it was approved to sell the H200s in China.
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