Chinese customs restrict Nvidia chips‘BASICALLY A BAN’: Sources said the wording governing H200 imports from officials was severe, but added that the regulations might change if the situation evolvesReutersChinese customs authorities told customs agents this week that Nvidia Corp’s H200 artificial intelligence (AI) chips are not permitted to enter China, three people briefed on the matter said. US President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday gave a formal green light to China-bound sales of the Nvidia chips with conditions, despite concerns among many China hawks in Washington that the chips could supercharge the Chinese military and erode the US’ advantage in AI. Nvidia would need to certify that there are enough H200s in the US, while Chinese customers must demonstrate “sufficient security procedures” and cannot use the chips for military purposes. Chinese technology companies have placed orders for more than 3 million H200 chips priced at about US$27,000 each, far exceeding Nvidia’s inventory of 700,000 chips, sources said last month. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week, Nvidia chief executive officer Jensen Huang (黃仁勳) said the firm was ramping up production of H200 chips amid robust demand that was driving up the price to rent the H200 chips sitting in cloud computing data centers.

Source: Taipei Times January 14, 2026 17:16 UTC