Nvidia's H200 Chips Reach China in Small Shipments Amid Regulatory Tensions

Nvidia's H200 chips have begun to arrive in China, according to the Financial Times. The company has cleared ByteDance and Tencent to purchase up to 100,000 of these powerful AI chips each.

However, Beijing is reportedly asking companies to keep the hardware outside mainland China to support domestic chipmakers. Instead, Chinese regulators have told companies they can ship the processors to Hong Kong and use them there.

The small batches of H200 chips that have entered China recently include about 10,000 processors for each ByteDance and Tencent. Other Chinese technology firms could soon secure similar shipments.