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China bans tech firms from Nvidia chip purchases: Report

Nvidia’s stock tumbled on the ban's announcement [File: Florence Lo/Reuters]

China has banned its leading tech firms from buying chips from Nvidia as the country ramps up domestic manufacturing.

The Financial Times reported that the country’s internet regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), told tech giants, including ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, and the e-commerce giant Alibaba, to end testing for an AI chip that the Santa Clara, California-based chip giant made explicitly for the Chinese market.

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