{"id":236339,"date":"2026-01-13T21:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T21:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/236339\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T21:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T21:56:10","slug":"china-limits-nvidia-chip-purchases-to-special-circumstances-information-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/236339\/","title":{"rendered":"China limits Nvidia chip purchases to special circumstances, Information reports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Jan 13 (Reuters) &#8211; The Chinese government this week told some tech companies it would only approve \u200btheir purchases of <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/quote\/NVDA\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:Nvidia;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nvidia<\/a>&#8216;s H200 AI chips under special \u200ccircumstances, such as for university research, the Information reported on Tuesday, \u200cciting two people with direct knowledge of the situation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The move signals Beijing is remaining cautious about fully reopening the Chinese market to Nvidia, whose semiconductors are pivotal in operating \u2060the most advanced \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/ai\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:artificial intelligence;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">artificial intelligence<\/a> applications and data centers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">China&#8217;s government issued a &#8220;deliberately vague&#8221; directive, the report said, telling \u200dsome technology firms to buy chips only when &#8220;necessary&#8221; but was unclear as to what that means.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The Information reported last week that \u200bChina had asked some companies to halt their orders \u200cfor the H200 chips, as it looked to prioritize domestic firms in their race to dominate AI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Nvidia is caught between Washington and Beijing, as the U.S. weighs tighter export controls on its most advanced technology while China \u2060pushes to strengthen domestic AI capabilities \u200band urges local firms to \u200bcurb reliance on foreign tech.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Nvidia and the Chinese embassy in the U.S. did not immediately respond \u200dto Reuters&#8217; requests \u2060for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The Chinese government plans to convene additional meetings with more companies to deliver the purchase directive, \u2060though it is unclear whether those sessions will include any new \u200cguidance, the report said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">(Reporting by Zaheer Kachwala in \u200cBengaluru; Editing by Tasim Zahid)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan 13 (Reuters) &#8211; The Chinese government this week told some tech companies it would only approve \u200btheir&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,1657,32590,8172,85,46,4136,51292,2352,125],"class_list":["post-236339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-china","tag-chinese-government","tag-chinese-market","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-nvidia","tag-special-circumstances","tag-tech-companies","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}