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About 600,000 Nvidia AI Chips Reportedly Stored in Hong Kong as Beijing Holds Off on Large-Scale Imports

November 9, 2026 at 02:40 EST

Infra & Chips
Policy & Regulation

Roughly 600,000 Nvidia artificial intelligence chips are reportedly being stored in Hong Kong while they wait to be shipped to mainland China, even though Beijing has not approved large-scale imports of the products.

Nvidia · Hong Kong · China AI chip market

About 600,000 Nvidia AI chips reportedly wait in Hong Kong for a China import approval that has not come

The stockpile sits just across the border from mainland China, ready to move once Beijing signs off on large-scale imports. The timing of that approval remains uncertain.

~600,000

Nvidia AI chips reportedly stored in Hong Kong

Large-scale import approvals from Beijing so far, per the report

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Figure not independently confirmed by Nvidia or Chinese agencies

Scale of the reported stockpile

Each block = 10,000 chips. 60 blocks = about 600,000 chips.

Blocks are illustrative of scale only. The count itself is a reported, unconfirmed estimate.

The path the chips are waiting on

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