U.S. reportedly approves 10 Chinese companies to purchase H200 AI chips from Nvidia

Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance, and JD.com are among the approved buyers, but Beijing's hesitation has stalled every transaction

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About 10 Chinese companies have received U.S. Commerce Department authorization to buy Nvidia $NVDA's H200 artificial intelligence chips, yet no shipments have reached any of them, Reuters reported, citing people with knowledge of the situation who were not named.

The approved buyers include Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance, and JD.com. Authorization has also been extended to distributors Lenovo and Foxconn, through whom Chinese customers may route their purchases rather than buying from Nvidia directly. U.S. licensing terms cap individual purchases at 75,000 chips per approved company, Reuters said.

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