… China has been encouraging local firms to use them in order to stimulate the homegrown chip industry. The Chinese government is also reportedly worried that the H200 chips sold to its companies have hidden vulnerabilities. …
NVIDIA's H200 AI GPUs are finally shipping to China, as reported by U.S. officials, marking the return of the banned chip. China Softens Its Position on NVIDIA GPUs As First H200 Shipments Now Headed To Chinese AI Firms The NVIDIA Hopper story in China has been a roller coaster ride so far. …
… China, however, isn’t a neutral buyer for Qualcomm at the moment: The country’s market regulator opened an antitrust investigation into its Autotalks acquisition in October, and has pressed domestic data center operators to source at least 50% of their chips locally while steering Alibaba, ByteDanc… …
… This comes as federal prosecutors recently charged the co-founder of Super Micro Computer and two of his associates for perpetrating a scheme that diverted around $2.5 billion worth of NVIDIA GPUs to China by using a network of front companies to place the initial orders, and then relying on stealt… …
… Go deeper with TH Premium: Chipmaking A deeper look at the chipmaking supply chain TSMC's $165 billion U.S. investments examined China reportedly reverse-engineers EUV tool China bets on DUV, as EUV blockade reshapes chipmaking The PCB shots confirm that Intel has opted to go with a single-GPU setu… …
… As US-China ties further ease, we can see the previously rumored Blackwell B30 GPUs start shipping to China once the Rubin generation arrives later this year. NVIDIA has, however, said that Blackwell and Rubin are the most advanced AI chips ever made , and they will not be sold to China. …
… ASRock's Performance Team Leader, Nick Shih, Has Been Falsely Named As Part of a Network Responsible For Smuggling Banned NVIDIA Chips To China Taiwanese media and news agencies have reported that the Keelung District Prosecutors' Office launched two waves of investigations into smuggling attempts … …
AI News May 15, 2026 by Nick Farrell Nvidia’s China chip deal stuck in Trump’s trade circus The US has cleared Chinese firms to buy Nvidia’s H200 AI chip, but the silicon still has not shipped. …
… Question 3 What does Anthropic propose regarding restricting powerful chips to China, and how is that framed in the article? …
… The availability of open models creates a bigger customer base for its AI chips. …
