Nvidia struggles to meet forecasts as RTX6000D sales slow in China

Despite earlier projections of a stronger demand, Nvidia’s new China-specific chip RTX6000D faces slow demand from Chinese ￰0￱ firms like Alibaba, Tencent, and ByteDance are reportedly reluctant to place orders, citing higher costs and performance issues in comparison with other available ￰1￱ RTX6000D was developed to align with the ￰2￱ controls and serve AI inference tasks in ￰3￱ began this week with an average pricing of 50,000 yuan ($7,000), which is considered rather expensive relative to its performance ￰4￱ to reports, some isolated tests performed on the chip fell below RTX5090 in performance. RTX5090 is currently restricted in China but available through the grey market channels at a lesser ￰5￱ B30A chips may deliver up to six times H20’s power Some analysts had projected a higher demand for the RTX6000D chips, including JPMorgan’s forecast in August, which showed that Nvidia could produce and supply 1.5 million RTX6000Ds in the second half of ￰6￱ Stanley forecasted a supply of 2 million chips during the same ￰7￱ slow adoption has sparked questions across the industry on whether the estimates will be achieved.