{"id":448292,"date":"2026-02-04T09:55:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T09:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/448292\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T09:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T09:55:11","slug":"nvidia-ai-chip-sales-to-china-stalled-by-us-security-review-ft-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/448292\/","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia AI chip sales to China stalled by US security review, FT reports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Feb 3 (Reuters) &#8211; <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 chip sales to China remain in limbo nearly two months after U.S. \u200bPresident Donald Trump approved exports, pending a U.S. national \u200csecurity review, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the \u200cdiscussions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Chinese customers are, meanwhile, not placing H200 chip orders with Nvidia until it becomes clear whether they will be able to secure the licences or what conditions will be attached, the report \u2060said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Reuters could not immediately \u200cverify the report. Nvidia and the U.S. State Department did not immediately respond to a Reuters \u200drequest for comment outside regular business hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">In January, the Commerce Department eased export curbs on the H200 for China, but required licence applications to \u200bbe reviewed by the U.S. departments of State, Defense \u200cand Energy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">According to the FT, the Commerce Department has completed its analysis but the State Department was pushing for tougher restrictions to make it harder for China to use the H200 chips in ways that would undermine U.S. national security.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Nvidia CEO Jensen \u2060Huang said last week he hopes \u200bChina will allow the U.S. technology \u200bgiant to sell its powerful H200 <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> chip in the country and that the licence is being \u200dfinalized.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Reuters reported \u2060last month that China had approved its first batch of Nvidia&#8217;s H200 artificial intelligence chips for import, marking a \u2060shift in position as China seeks to balance its AI needs against spurring \u200cdomestic development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">(Reporting by Shivani Tanna and Disha Mishra in \u200cBengaluru; Editing by Rashmi Aich)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb 3 (Reuters) &#8211; Nvidia&#8216;s H200 AI chip sales to China remain in limbo nearly two months after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,144,4321,942,74,180900],"class_list":["post-448292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-china","tag-nvidia","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-technology","tag-u-s-state-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}