The Chinese government has reportedly approved DeepSeek's purchase of NVIDIA H200 processors, but regulatory conditions remain in place and are still being finalized.
Reuters reported that the Chinese government has given permission to domestic company DeepSeek to purchase NVIDIA's H200 AI chip, which has been approved for export from the United States.
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The Chinese government has approved DeepSeek's purchase of the H200, but has imposed regulatory conditions that are being finalized, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Just before this, it was reported that ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent had been approved to purchase a total of more than 400,000 H200 units. According to sources, all of these approvals are conditional.
NVIDIA's second-highest performance AI chip, the H200, is currently being used as a bargaining chip in US-China relations. The H200, which was previously banned from export to China, is set to be lifted in 2026, but China is reportedly reluctant to import it.
China government tells tech companies not to import NVIDIA's H200 because it is a prohibited item - GIGAZINE
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang responded to the reports by saying, 'We have not received any such information,' adding, 'We believe China is still in the final stages of development.'
The Trump administration is seeking to expand into the Chinese market in order to strengthen the influence of domestic companies, but there are voices of opposition within the United States, who point out that exporting powerful semiconductors, even if they are of an older generation, would have a significant impact on national security.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei strongly opposes exporting high-performance chips to China, calling it 'like giving nuclear weapons to North Korea' - GIGAZINE
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