{"id":368580,"date":"2026-01-14T03:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T03:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/368580\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T03:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T03:17:08","slug":"us-approves-sale-of-nvidias-advanced-h200-chips-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/368580\/","title":{"rendered":"US approves sale of Nvidia’s advanced H200 chips to China"},"content":{"rendered":"

The BBC has contacted Nvidia for comment.<\/p>\n

The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security said its revised export policy applies to Nvidia’s H200 chips, as well as less advanced processors.<\/p>\n

The H200 chip is a generation behind Nvidia’s Blackwell processor, which is considered to be the world’s most advanced AI semiconductor and remains blocked from sale in China.<\/p>\n

Nvidia has been caught in a geopolitical tug-of-war between the US and China – two sides of a global AI race.<\/p>\n

Trump reversed the chip-selling restriction last July, but demanded that Nvidia pay a cut of its earnings from China to the US government.<\/p>\n

Beijing then reportedly ordered its tech companies to boycott Nvidia’s China-bound chips and prioritise semiconductors made domestically. That move was designed to bolster China’s tech industry<\/a>, though experts have consistently said that the country’s chips still lag behind the US.<\/p>\n

Throughout 2025, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang continually lobbied Washington<\/a> to allow the sale of the firm’s high-powered chips to China, arguing that global market excess is essential for America’s competitiveness.<\/p>\n

Some officials in the US, however, have expressed concerns that the chips would benefit Beijing’s military and hurt America’s progress in AI development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The BBC has contacted Nvidia for comment. The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security said its revised…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-368580","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-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}