US Clears Nvidia H200 AI Chip Sales to 10 Chinese Firms Like Alibaba and Tencent – Deliveries on Hold Amid Beijing Guidance
The US Commerce Department has approved sales of Nvidia's powerful H200 AI chips to around 10 Chinese companies including Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance, and JD.com, plus distributors Lenovo and Foxconn, allowing up to 75,000 chips per buyer. No deliveries have occurred yet as Beijing urges firms to prioritize domestic chips like Huawei's. The move comes as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang joins Trump-Xi summit talks in Beijing potentially unlocking billions from China's $50B AI market.
Could revive Nvidia's dominance in China's massive AI compute market stalled by export curbs.