China to technology companies: You can only buy Nvidia H200 AI chips if …
No, China is not listening to CEO Jensen Huang on Nvidia chips. The Chinese government reportedly has set strict conditions for technology companies wanting to use Nvidia’s H200 AI chips. According to a report in The Information, the Chinese government has told some tech companies that it would only approve their purchases of Nvidia’s H200 AI chips under special circumstances. These include for university research. The report claims to cite two people with direct knowledge of the situation. China’s government issued a “deliberately vague” directive, the report said, telling some technology companies to buy chips only when “necessary” but was unclear as to what that means.
