The H200 AI chips will remain reserved for customers in the United States.
On Tuesday, the British outlet Financial Times reported that Chinese authorities are considering restrictions on access to Nvidia’s H200 chips, despite U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to allow their export.
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Chinese buyers would have to “undergo an approval process” and justify why domestic suppliers cannot meet their needs. The information comes after Trump’s authorization of sales conditioned on a 25% payment to the U.S., and a final decision has not yet been made.
Trump stated that he informed Chinese President Xi Jinping about the authorization to export H200 chips to approved customers in China and other countries, under conditions that protect national security, to which Xi responded “positively.”
The Republican President clarified that the payment agreement does not include other Artificial Intelligence (AI) chips such as Blackwell and Rubin. In August, the U.S. government signed a similar agreement with Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), and imposed a 15% tariff on exports.
Trump is allowing Nvidia to sell H200 to China.
They’re worried that Huawei will take over Nvidia’s AI chip market share in China.
Nvidia’s most advanced Blackwell chips are still banned from selling to China.
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Nvidia also holds a license to export the H20 chip to China, a chip less powerful than the H200 and designed specifically for the Chinese market, also with a 15% tariff. The U.S. Department of Commerce is “preparing details” to apply the same scheme to AMD and Intel.
The H200 chip, launched two years ago, surpasses the H100 thanks to its larger, high-bandwidth memory, which allows for faster data processing. According to the Institute for Progress, the chip is almost six times more powerful than the H20.
Exporting the H200 would allow Chinese AI labs to build supercomputers comparable to those in the United States, although at higher costs. Trump remarked that Nvidia’s new Blackwell and Rubin chips will remain reserved for U.S. customers and are not part of the agreement with China.
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