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Tencent leases 100,000 Nvidia chips from Oracle

Original: Tencent is leasing 100,000 Nvidia H100 chips from Oracle, placing them in Southeast Asian data centers like Malaysia. Th

Tencent is reportedly leasing 100,000 Nvidia H100 chips from Oracle, housing them in Southeast Asian data centers including Malaysia. The arrangement would give China's largest gaming and social media company access to top-tier AI computing power outside the United States, despite Washington's export controls restricting sales of advanced chips to Chinese firms.

Why now: The deal highlights how Chinese tech giants are circumventing US chip export restrictions through offshore cloud infrastructure.

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• Tencent is leasing 100,000 Nvidia H100 chips from Oracle, placing them in Southeast Asian data centers like Malaysia. This isn't just a massive hardware grab; it’s a highly strategic, costly move by a Chinese tech giant to build offshore infrastructure that bypasses US export… · asiaai · 1

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