“After information of the newest US restrictions broke, all retailers began stocking up on numerous AI-related items they may get, and at the moment are ready to promote these at a excessive worth,” Cai stated on Monday.
Beijing stated it opposes the revised controls introduced final Friday, slamming the US authorities for arbitrarily altering guidelines and damaging the rights of each Chinese language and American corporations.
“It has not solely arrange extra obstacles for Chinese language and US corporations to hold out regular financial and commerce cooperation, whereas imposing a heavier burden of compliance, but additionally causes hurt to the worldwide semiconductor business,” a consultant of China’s Ministry of Commerce stated on Sunday.
Sure variations of the RTX 4090 can be found at round 20,000 yuan (US$2,768), over 70 per cent greater than Nvidia’s really useful retail worth. Cai, who sells graphics playing cards and private computer systems, stated some variations of the RTX 4090 value about 16,000 yuan.