IT Morning News: RTX 5090 Prices Surge Amid Shortages and Claude Adds UnionPay
Recent tech updates highlight NVIDIA's RTX 5090 graphics card skyrocketing to 60,000 RMB due to supply constraints, and Anthropic's Claude adding payment support for UnionPay cards in Greater China. These hardware price surges and software service expansions reflect ongoing component shortages in the supply chain and improved regional accessibility for prominent AI tools. The root cause of the GPU price inflation lies in GDDR7 memory shortages, while Claude's update also allows users in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan to settle payments locally.
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GDDR7 SDRAM is a high-bandwidth graphics memory standard succeeding GDDR6, designed for high-performance computing and graphics cards. Huaqiangbei, located in Shenzhen, is well-known as a major electronics market and barometer for component pricing and availability in China.