{
  "id": 6592009,
  "title": "China's AI chipmakers raise prices as high-bandwidth memory shortage bites",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/10/chinas-ai-chipmakers-raise-prices-as-high-bandwidth-memory-shortage",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-10T12:43:44.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Economic Times Tech",
    "slug": "economic-times-tech",
    "url": "https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/chinas-ai-chipmakers-raise-prices-as-high-bandwidth-memory-shortage-bites/articleshow/134010412.cms"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Chinese AI chip manufacturers, such as Huawei Technologies and Cambricon, have recently implemented significant price increases for their latest AI processors, as soaring costs for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) hamper the development of homegrown alternatives to Nvidia's offerings. Huawei recently raised the price of its Ascend 950DT accelerator card, which combines an AI processor with memory and other components, to over 250,000 yuan ($37,255), a 20% to 50% increase from prices quoted to customers two months ago. Beijing-based Cambricon has also raised the price of its next-generation chip, the 690, by 20% to 30% from levels it indicated two months ago. The price hikes reflect the broader impact of a worldwide HBM shortage on China's AI industry, as Beijing urges companies to replace Nvidia's products with domestically produced alternatives. Since the U.S. tightened controls on exports of certain advanced HBM products to China in December 2024, Chinese chipmakers have increasingly relied on gray-market channels to secure supplies, which typically cost several times more than what buyers outside China pay. This situation is forcing chipmakers to reevaluate their production costs and allocation of resources, with some companies like Iluvatar CoreX doubling shipments of GPUs to meet the demands of major clients.",
  "summary": "Huawei has lifted the indicated price of its Ascend 950DT accelerator card, which integrates an AI processor with memory and other components, to above 250,000 yuan ($37,255), two people said.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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    "outlets": 4,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "Sources: Chinese AI chipmakers Huawei, Cambricon, MetaX, and Iluvatar CoreX have raised prices for current and next-gen chips by 20%-50% due to rising HBM costs (Reuters)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/10/sources-chinese-ai-chipmakers-huawei-cambricon-metax-and-iluvatar",
        "published": "2026-09-10T05:30:02.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Free Malaysia Today",
        "title": "China’s AI chipmakers raise prices as HBM shortage bites",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/10/chinas-ai-chipmakers-raise-prices-as-hbm-shortage-bites",
        "published": "2026-09-10T07:14:50.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "ITP.net",
        "title": "China’s AI Chipmakers Raise Prices as HBM Shortage Drives Up Costs",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/10/chinas-ai-chipmakers-raise-prices-as-hbm-shortage-drives-up-costs",
        "published": "2026-09-10T10:03:53.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}