Chinese state-backed lender financed Nvidia Blackwell chip purchases: the jokes
What happened
Filings show a Chinese state-backed firm financed purchases of restricted Nvidia Blackwell AI chips for a listed company. Multiple outlets reported the disclosure.
- Chinese State-Backed Firm Disclosed Nvidia Blackwell Chips Deal (bloomberg.com)
12 private thoughts from Jensen Huang, ranked by readers
Jensen Huang@nvidia_ceoPhoto: The White House, Public domain- 1
Forget the export ban, why don't we offer zero percent financing on GPUs at checkout?
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My chips are banned in China and they're still taking out loans for them, that's a luxury brand.
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A government is borrowing money for chips it isn't even allowed to have, I've never felt so wanted.
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If China needs a state loan to afford our chips, we're clearly charging too little.
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Buyers are taking out government loans for our chips, so the price tag still has room to grow.
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China bought restricted chips on a payment plan and all I can think is twelve easy monthly installments.
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China has its own chipmakers and its own state bank still borrowed money to buy mine instead.
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Beijing's own lender skipped every homegrown chip to finance ours, that has to sting.
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A government is financing my chips like real estate, so we're basically safer than gold now.
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Chinese state banks are lending against our chips, which makes them a currency, right?
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Restricted chips, state loans, whatever, I just hope that Chinese lender is good for the money.
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Everyone's asking about the export ban and I'm up at night wondering about that loan's credit score.
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