{"id":438228,"date":"2026-01-28T08:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T08:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/438228\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T08:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T08:21:09","slug":"exclusive-china-gives-green-light-to-importing-first-batch-of-nvidias-h200-ai-chips-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/438228\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive-China gives green light to importing first batch of Nvidia&#8217;s H200 AI chips, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Jan 28 (Reuters) &#8211; China has approved its first batch of Nvidia&#8217;s \u200bH200 artificial intelligence chips for \u200cimport, two people familiar with the matter told \u200cReuters, marking a shift in position as China seeks to balance its AI needs against spurring domestic \u2060development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The approval covers \u200cseveral hundred thousand H200 chips and was granted during \u200dNvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang&#8217;s visit to China this week, the sources said, requesting \u200banonymity due to the sensitivity \u200cof the matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The first batch of approvals has been allocated primarily to three major Chinese internet companies, with other enterprises now joining a queue \u2060for subsequent approvals, one \u200bof the sources \u200bsaid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">They declined to name the companies that received the initial clearances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">China&#8217;s \u200dindustry and \u2060commerce ministries as well as Nvidia had not yet responded to \u2060requests for comment at the time of \u200cpublication.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">(Reporting by Reuters staff; Editing \u200cby Sonali Paul)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan 28 (Reuters) &#8211; China has approved its first batch of Nvidia&#8217;s \u200bH200 artificial intelligence chips for \u200cimport,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,95,8189,6494,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-438228","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-china","14":"tag-jensen-huang","15":"tag-nvidia","16":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}