{"id":223846,"date":"2026-01-08T20:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T20:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/223846\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T20:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T20:54:10","slug":"nvidias-reportedly-asking-chinese-customers-to-pay-upfront-for-its-h200-ai-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/223846\/","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia\u2019s reportedly asking Chinese customers to pay upfront for its H200 AI chips"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"the Visitors visit the NVIDIA booth at the 3rd China International Supply Chain Expo in Beijing, China, on July 20, 2025. (Photo by Costfoto\/NurPhoto via Getty Images) | Image Credits:Costfoto\/NurPhoto \/ Getty Images <\/p>\n

Nvidia is now requiring its customers in China to pay upfront in full for its H200 AI chips even as approval stateside and from Beijing remains uncertain, Reuters reported<\/a>, citing anonymous sources.<\/p>\n

The chipmaker isn\u2019t leaving any room for refunds or changes to orders, the report said.<\/p>\n

While some customers may be allowed to use commercial insurance or asset collateral, the terms are far stricter than Nvidia\u2019s earlier policies, which sometimes permitted partial deposits, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n

Nvidia declined to comment. <\/p>\n

China is expected to allow Nvidia to sell its H200 chips in the country, per Bloomberg<\/a>, though Beijing wants to prevent the chips from being used by its military, state-owned firms, and sensitive infrastructure concerns.<\/p>\n

Despite the challenges, demand for Nvidia\u2019s H200 remains strong, and Chinese companies have reportedly<\/a> placed orders for more than 2 million of the GPUs in 2026, prompting the chipmaker to ramp up production.<\/p>\n

Nvidia is trying to strike a careful balance between meeting strong demand for its chips while managing political risk in both the U.S. and China. The U.S. chipmaker suffered costly setbacks<\/a> when the Trump administration said it would need a license to export its H20 chips to China, forcing the company to write down $5.5 billion worth of inventory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Visitors visit the NVIDIA booth at the 3rd China International Supply Chain Expo in Beijing, China, on July…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,607,134025,111,139,1042,69,145],"class_list":["post-223846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-china","tag-china-international-supply-chain-expo","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nvidia","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}