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Chinese authorities person granted approval for aggregate Chinese companies to acquisition H200 AI chips from Nvidia, according to a idiosyncratic acquainted with the situation.
Earlier connected Tuesday, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said astatine a property league successful San Jose, California that the semiconductor institution had been licensed for “many customers in China” for the H200, and had received acquisition orders from “many” companies.
Nvidia had been waiting for licenses from some the U.S. and China for months. The chipmaker has received immoderate U.S. approvals, and the root said it had present besides received licenses for galore customers successful China from Beijing.
A spokesperson for the Chinese embassy successful Washington said they were “not alert of the specifics,” and directed questions to “the competent authorities.”
Huang added that Nvidia was successful the process of restarting manufacturing of the H200. The institution halted accumulation amid regulatory hurdles successful the U.S. and China, according to an FT study past month.
CNBC besides reported connected Tuesday that Huang told them the institution present has clearance from some the U.S. and China.
A Chinese company root said that they did not cognize if the Chinese authorities had fixed last approval, but that Nvidia had told them that they could present spot acquisition orders.
In a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission precocious past month, Nvidia said that the U.S. had granted a licence successful February that would let “small amounts of H200 products to circumstantial China-based customers.”
In January, Reuters reported that China granted preliminary support to 3 of its largest tech companies, ByteDance, Tencent and Alibaba, on with AI startup Deepseek to import the chips, though the regulatory conditions for China’s approvals were inactive being finalised.
The Chinese companies did not instantly respond to emailed requests for comment.
