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Tencent to lease 100,000 AI chips from Oracle in $7 billion deal
Original: China's Tencent taps Oracle for 100,000 AI chips in $7B lease deal - report (TCEHY:OTCMKTS)
Tencent has agreed a roughly $7 billion deal to lease around 100,000 AI chips from Oracle, according to a report. The arrangement would give the Chinese tech giant access to significant computing power through Oracle's infrastructure, sidestepping US export restrictions on advanced chips sold directly to Chinese firms. The news draws attention to how Chinese companies are securing AI capacity via foreign cloud providers and to the scale of global demand for AI hardware.
Why now: The scale of the deal and its implications for US chip export controls on China are drawing attention.
Evidence
- China's Tencent taps Oracle for 100,000 AI chips in $7B lease deal - report (TCEHY:OTCMKTS) · Seeking Alpha
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