Oracle nixes $7B chip leasing deal with China’s Tencent after Trump admin pushback: report
The deal struck by Oracle and its billionaire chairman Larry Ellison would have provided Tencent with access to up to 100,000 AI chips located at Asia-based data centers over a five-year term. Ordinarily, Tencent would be barred from accessing the advanced chips due to US export controls.
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Financial Times
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Oracle Scraps $7 Billion Deal to Lease Chips to Tencent, FT Says (opens Bloomberg)Bloomberg's feed description
New York Post
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