{"id":266984,"date":"2026-02-04T10:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T10:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/266984\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T10:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T10:08:08","slug":"nvidia-ai-chip-sales-to-china-stalled-by-u-s-security-review-ft-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/266984\/","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia AI chip sales to China stalled by U.S. security review, FT reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nvidia&#8217;s\u00a0H200\u00a0AI\u00a0chip\u00a0sales\u00a0to\u00a0China\u00a0still await a U.S. security\u00a0review nearly two months after exports were approved, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday. (Photo Illustration by Nikolas Kokovlis\/NurPhoto via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/NVDA\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nvidia&#8217;s<\/a>\u00a0H200\u00a0AI\u00a0chip\u00a0sales\u00a0to\u00a0China\u00a0remain in limbo nearly two months after U.S. President Donald Trump approved exports, pending a U.S. national\u00a0security\u00a0review, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the discussions.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese customers are, meanwhile, not placing H200\u00a0chip\u00a0orders with\u00a0Nvidia\u00a0until it becomes clear whether they will be able to secure the licenses or what conditions will be attached, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters could not immediately verify the report.\u00a0Nvidia\u00a0and the U.S. State Department did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment outside regular business hours.<\/p>\n<p>In January, the Commerce Department eased export curbs on the H200 for\u00a0China, but required license applications to be\u00a0reviewed by the U.S. departments of State, Defense and Energy.<\/p>\n<p>According to the\u00a0FT, the Commerce Department has completed its analysis but the State Department was pushing for tougher restrictions to make it harder for\u00a0China\u00a0to\u00a0use the H200\u00a0chips in ways that would undermine U.S. national\u00a0security.<\/p>\n<p>Nvidia\u00a0CEO Jensen Huang said last week he\u00a0hopes\u00a0China\u00a0will allow the U.S. technology giant to sell its powerful H200 artificial intelligence\u00a0chip\u00a0in the country and that the licence is being finalized.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters reported last month that\u00a0China\u00a0had\u00a0approved\u00a0its first batch of\u00a0Nvidia&#8217;s H200 artificial intelligence\u00a0chips for import, marking a shift\u00a0in position as\u00a0China\u00a0seeks to balance its\u00a0AI\u00a0needs against spurring domestic development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nvidia&#8217;s\u00a0H200\u00a0AI\u00a0chip\u00a0sales\u00a0to\u00a0China\u00a0still await a U.S. security\u00a0review nearly two months after exports were approved, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,14143,4562,553,607,65,18973,17231,111,139,5742,69,135,151987,145,5078,30345,1430],"class_list":{"0":"post-266984","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-breaking-news-politics","12":"tag-breaking-news-technology","13":"tag-business-news","14":"tag-china","15":"tag-donald-trump","16":"tag-jensen-huang","17":"tag-national-security","18":"tag-new-zealand","19":"tag-newzealand","20":"tag-nvidia-corp","21":"tag-nz","22":"tag-politics","23":"tag-state-department","24":"tag-technology","25":"tag-trump-administration","26":"tag-u-s-department-of-commerce","27":"tag-united-states"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266984","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=266984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}