Beijing clears Nvidia H200 chip purchases by major Chinese tech firms

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Chinese authorities granted conditional licenses allowing ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent to purchase more than 400,000 Nvidia H200 AI chips in total, with additional approvals expected in coming weeks.
Beijing clears Nvidia H200 chip purchases by major Chinese tech firms
Why it matters
Multiple outlets, including Reuters, reported the approvals during Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s visit to China, describing the permissions as conditional licenses covering hundreds of thousands of H200 chips for leading Chinese internet companies; Nvidia and the companies cited did not immediately comment, and the White House later provided comment in an update to the story.
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