Inside China’s underground market for high-end Nvidia AI chips

HONG KONG/SHENZHEN, China, June 20 (Reuters) – Psst! Where can a Chinese buyer purchase top-end Nvidia (NVDA.O) AI chips in the wake of U.S. sanctions? Visiting the famed Huaqiangbei electronics area in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen is a good bet – in particular, the SEG Plaza skyscraper whose first 10 floors are crammed with shops selling everything from camera parts to drones. The chips are not advertised but asking discreetly works. They don’t come cheap. Two vendors there, who spoke with Reuters in person on condition of anonymity, said they could provide small numbers of A100 artificial intelligence…