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Nvidia Is Tightening Its China Rules, And It Goes Beyond Selling AI Chips

For years, the battle over China's access to advanced AI technology has focused on one thing: computer chips. The United States has restricted the sale of some of Nvidia's most powerful AI processors to Chinese companies, hoping to slow China's progress in artificial intelligence. But there is another way to access those chips without physically importing them. Instead of buying the hardware, a company can rent computing power from a data center in another country.