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Beijing reportedly bans imports of some gaming chips

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What happened: On May 19, FT reported that China added Nvidia's RTX 5090D V2 graphics card to its customs ban list on May 15.

That's the same day CEO Jensen Huang was in Beijing as part of President Trump's state visit.

Recap: The 5090D V2 is a China-specific version of Nvidia's top gaming GPU, al...