China approves sale of Nvidia H200 AI chips Change China granted conditional licenses allowing ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent to purchase more than 400,000 Nvidia H200 AI chips in total. Why it matters Beijing issued conditional export licenses covering purchases of Nvidia H200 chips. The licenses granted allow ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent to buy more than 400,000 H200 chips in total. Additional conditional approvals are expected in the coming weeks. U.S. export controls had previously barred sales of chips such as the H200 to Chinese customers. Wired · Jan 30 More actions Like (sign in) Save (sign in) Share Facebook LinkedIn X / Twitter Copy link