Dell Prohibits Sales of AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX, 7900 XT, PRO W7900 & Upcoming MI300 GPUs In China

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AMD's Radeon & Instinct GPUs including the RX 7900 XTX, 7900 XT, PRO W7900 & the upcoming MI300 are now prohibited from sales in China according to a sales advisory guide that's allegedly been rolled out by Dell.

We have seen that the export restrictions to China continue to increase for US-based companies, especially those making high-end chips that can be used to gain leverage from military & strategic points of view. NVIDIA devised a performance measurement criteria where any chip or GPU that exceeds a 4800 TPP metric should fall under restrictions and countries who still want access to the chip would have to request eligibility under NEC which we shed more light on here.

In its sales advisory report, Dell highlights a range of AMD products that have now been prohibited from sales within China and 23 other locations.

The products that have been banned include the Instinct accelerators that are offered under its ISG (Infrastructure Solutions Group) and Radeon GPUs that are offered under its CSG (Client Solutions Group). The banned Dell "AMD ISG" products include the Instinct MI210, MI250, MI250X & even the upcoming MI300 family.

For the client side, the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX, RX 7900 XT, and Radeon PRO W7900 have been included though it should be remembered that these three products fall under "NEC" eligibility as they aren't purely data-center products. So it is very possible that retailers who manage to get NEC eligibility can continue to sell the said cards within the restricted regions same as the GeForce RTX 4090 and the banned RTX "NVIDIA CSG" products. However, the eligibility process will take days & would mean that stocks can dry up really fast, leading to shortages and higher prices on GPUs.

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