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# China's AI chip shortage pushes Nvidia B300 prices to $1M
- URL: https://adjacent.media/signals/chinas-ai-chip-shortage-pushes-nvidia-b300-prices-to-1m/
- Published: 2026-05-01T13:38:50.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-01T13:38:50.000Z
- Description: U.S. export controls on advanced chips, combined with Beijing’s enforcement against smuggling networks, have created a genuine supply vacuum in China’s AI infrastructure market—one that gray market dealers can no longer fill.
- Author: Jonathan Greene
- Tags: #signal, theme-commerce, pricing, supply chain, market dynamics

Source: [Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/world/china/prices-nvidias-b300-server-1-million-china-us-curbs-sources-say-2026-04-30/?ref=adjacent.media)

U.S. export controls on advanced chips, combined with Beijing's enforcement against smuggling networks, have created a genuine supply vacuum in China's AI infrastructure market—one that gray market dealers can no longer fill. Nvidia is capturing this artificial scarcity as direct pricing power, effectively doubling costs for the same hardware. Chinese AI labs and cloud providers now face a choice: pay steep markups, delay projects, or pivot to homegrown alternatives like Huawei's Ascend chips. The price differential creates economic incentive for both Chinese chip R&D and for finding workarounds to U.S. restrictions. The export control regime itself accelerates Chinese self-sufficiency.