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      "date": "2025-12-23",
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      "title": "Alibaba weighs an order of 40,000 to 50,000 MI308 chips",
      "summary": "Reports citing people familiar with the talks said Alibaba was considering buying 40,000 to 50,000 MI308 accelerators, priced around $12,000 each and roughly 15 percent below Nvidia's H20, in what would be AMD's largest China AI deal since the controls began. AMD had excluded MI308 from its guidance, so any order would be upside.",
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