Update: JD Chinese Market Listed and Removed Showing Restricted NVIDIA GPUs and Blackwell Prices

Update: Based on information shared by @Zed__Wang, the seller may have been connected to JD logistics or operations, but it did not function as a legitimate NVIDIA distribution partner.
JD NVIDIA AI Accelerators Listed and Removed Showing Restricted RTX 5090 and Blackwell Prices

JD Briefly Lists Restricted NVIDIA AI Accelerators and RTX 5090 Blackwell Hardware Showing Potential Shifts in International Supply Chain Trade Regulations

JD has temporarily offered a variety of high restriction NVIDIA AI accelerators through a direct retail window before disabling them all. The new AI Hardware JD Self Operated Zone section showed prices and availability for high performance computing hardware that is completely restricted by United States Export Administration Regulations. The postings were seen before they vanished but as quickly as they showed up, they disappeared into unavailable placeholders.

The leak has also revealed exactdomestic pricingof the high restriction parts. The worldwide unified RTX 5090 32GB Blower edition was offered for 35,999 CNY at JD, the particular card was not limited by region and is manufactured for high density multi card server deployments. The storefront also previewed the Blackwell architecture RTX PRO 6000 96GB which would be targeted at rendering/datacenter uses; this product showed at 91,999 CNY in server specification and 76,999 CNY for a desktop configuration. Additionally, enterprise tier training cards like the Tesla A100 80GB and H100 were displayed in top banners on the JD AI Hardware page as coming soon.

The revelation that these components are listed on a direct self operated window immediately began to draw commentary about trade law and the international supply chain. Products offered directly by the retailers require manufacturer branding and have official permitting and authorization and a full scale direct retail listing might signify an improvement in US China tech trade negotiations and possibly consumer flagship GPUs moving out of the gray market, though their quick removal suggests the whole scheme could be incredibly fluid, or the official supply chain authorization could have been erroneous.

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