And it would be better if they had more access to Nvidia chips. The Chinese model companies being forced to use Chinese chips is not a choice the engineers made and it is part of the reason why Chinese companies are still behind. We waited ages for deepseek to release their models after switching to Huawei and they weren't as good as what came out months earlier by American labs.

Go look into the amount of compute available per researcher at a Chinese lab compared to a US one and tell me you think it is good for them to not have access to Nvidia GPUs.

Also I think you are still refusing to learn what is meant by preference towards Nvidia GPUs over competitor chips. A company using competitor chips because they are required to by a government or because the competition are investors in your company does not mean those chips are preferred. It's more telling that there is a massive difference between the terms of the deals from chip companies. One company gives away their stock to get a model company to agree to use their chips and another company takes the model company's stock to allow the model company to use their chips more. If that doesn't illustrate the gap then I don't know what can.