China Plans to Let Top AI Firms Buy Limited Amount of Nvidia H200 Chips
China plans to allow some of the country’s biggest AI companies to buy a small number of Nvidia’s H200 chips, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter. The chip purchase approvals would offset a shortage caused by soaring demand for AI chips. U.S. President Donald Trump gave Nvidia permission in December to ship H200 chips to approved Chinese customers—a major shift in Washington’s export control policy, as the H200 had previously been off-limits to China. Beijing,...