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- Chinese tech companies bought over 1 million Nvidia gaming and workstation chips — mostly RTX 5090 and RTX Pro models — for basic AI workloads amid an AI chip shortage, according to Financial Times sources
- Nvidia gaming and workstation hardware is now being deployed for AI computing tasks the chips were never designed for, as Chinese tech giants scramble to satisfy soaring demand without dedicated AI silicon
Why it matters: A million-plus gaming GPUs are now powering AI inference in Chinese data centers, a demand shift Nvidia's consumer and workstation lines were never built for — exposing how the AI chip shortage is pushing real workload onto hardware categories designed for entirely different jobs.
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