Local media has referred to the compute acquisition as 'the largest centralized procurement of artificial intelligence servers in China to date.' The purchase scale could exceed 15 billion yuan ($2 billion).
While US-based GPU-makers are able to export their high-end product to China if granted a license to do so, such permission is not likely to be given to China Mobile as it is state-controlled and, like its mega-carrier peers China Telecom and China Unicom, has been named on the US Department of Defense's 'entities identified as Chinese Military Companies.'
Other options include illegal smuggling, or simply acquiring servers with those lesser GPUs inside - transactions of a sort that Dell, Supermicro, and Gigabyte are reportedly happy to conduct.
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