China-modified Nvidia RTX 5090 with massive 96GB of memory appears on Alibaba for less than $4,000

Recently, Chinese manufacturer Shenzhen Suqiao Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. has unveiled a modified version of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card with an impressive 96GB of memory—three times... Read original →

The emergence of this modified RTX 5090 underscores China’s OEMs' growing capability in GPU customization, leveraging non-standard PCBs and GDDR6X memory stacking to achieve 96GB capacity—bypassing NVIDIA’s official constraints. This move risks triggering stricter licensing enforcement from NVIDIA, especially amid rising demand for high-memory AI accelerators. Competitors like AMD or Intel may fall behind if they fail to match such innovations, potentially reshaping the AI server landscape. Within the next 12 months, such non-standard cards could become prevalent, pushing the industry toward more flexible, cost-effective compute architectures and intensifying global semiconductor geopolitical tensions.