- Tencent Holdings has gained access to NVIDIA‘s advanced Blackwell chips via a Tokyo-based cloud provider.
- Datasection, operating data centers in Japan and Australia, will supply these chips to clients including Tencent.
- Nvidia’s Blackwell chips are banned in China, but export rules allow them to be used outside the country by approved firms.
- The arrangement relies on Datasection’s operations being located in regions not affected by U.S. export restrictions.
Tencent Holdings, a major Chinese technology company, now has access to Nvidia’s Blackwell chips through a partnership with Datasection, a cloud service provider based in Tokyo. Datasection announced a deal to purchase the Blackwell chips, which will be used at its data centers in Japan and Australia. According to a recent report, Tencent is one of the clients using these services.
Nvidia’s Blackwell chips are currently prohibited from being exported to China under U.S. technology export controls. However, Datasection is not affected by these rules since its data centers operate outside of China. When asked about Tencent’s access, Datasection CEO Norihiko Ishihara stated, “I don’t say yes; I don’t say no.” The arrangement falls within current export laws, which allow cloud infrastructure to be built and run outside restricted countries by authorized providers. As stated by a Nvidia spokesperson, “By design, the export rules allow clouds to be built and operated outside controlled countries by approved firms.”
Blackwell chips are a new generation of AI accelerator hardware from Nvidia, designed to offer higher performance for Artificial Intelligence tasks. Since these chips are banned in China, Chinese companies like Tencent would not be able to import them directly. Using data centers in regions such as Japan and Australia provides a legal channel for access.
No details were provided about the value of the deal or the number of chips involved. This development highlights how companies are adapting to changing regulations on technology exports by leveraging global data center networks.
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