Nvidia Urgently Seeking Chinese AI Base Station Suppliers, Launching Edge Computing Network by 2027

US chip giant Nvidia (NVDA-US) is urgently seeking AI base station suppliers in China to develop 6G AI-RAN base stations—devices that handle both communication connectivity and AI computing tasks.

Core figures in the communications industry chain revealed that Nvidia is accelerating its entry into the telecom market and searching for Chinese base station manufacturers to collaborate on developing 6G base stations that meet overseas market requirements.

According to a report by Jiemian News on Thursday, June 6, the source described Nvidia as searching for the 'next Zhongji Xuchuang' in edge computing, as Nvidia believes that computing power will next need to be transmitted from data centers to massive numbers of AI terminals and users, ultimately relying on wireless transmission via base stations.

The source said Nvidia's pace in advancing this project is 'relatively urgent,' with the goal of entering trial networks by 2027 or 2028.

Jiemian News reported that Shenzhen Jiaxian Communication is one of the base station partners Nvidia is building relationships with, and an insider from the company confirmed this. Nvidia has been in contact with the company since 2025, and both parties are collaborating to develop 6G AI-RAN base stations based on Nvidia's CUDA ecosystem. The partnership has already lasted for over half a year.

'Jiaxian Communication and Nvidia have already formed a dedicated working group. Over ten Nvidia personnel are involved, with members distributed across Singapore, Hong Kong, and mainland China. The working group is currently conducting research around the open-source ecosystem of Nvidia's CUDA system,' said a Jiaxian Communication representative.

Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Shenzhen, Jiaxian Communication is a provider of AI-RAN wireless communication products and solutions.

According to Jiemian News, the collaboration between Jiaxian Communication and Nvidia has entered the technical development phase, and the possibility of establishing a commercial entity for joint overseas expansion has not been ruled out.

'We have already started cooperation at the technical level,' said a Jiaxian Communication representative. In the current collaboration, Nvidia does not directly manufacture or sell complete base stations but participates through chips and its technology ecosystem—base station companies purchase Nvidia GPUs and develop 6G AI-RAN base stations based on the CUDA ecosystem, then sell the finished products to overseas markets.

'We expect the AI base station prototype developed with Nvidia to be ready by the end of this year. After verification, it will be brought to market within one to two years,' the source said.

For Nvidia, AI base stations represent a business opportunity no less significant than data center computing.

In the AI 1.0 era, computing power was primarily concentrated in data centers, and Nvidia sold large quantities of GPUs. In the AI 2.0 era, where applications are being deployed, the application space for edge-side computing power is even broader. Nvidia hopes that edge and endpoint computing will also adopt its chips. Therefore, entering the AI base station market is Nvidia's preparation for the upcoming era of endpoint computing power.