China Tells Tech Companies to Halt Nvidia H200 Chip Orders

The Chinese government this week asked some tech companies to temporarily halt plans to buy Nvidia’s H200 AI chips, according to two people involved in the communication, throwing up a possible roadblock in Nvidia’s hopes of restarting chip sales to one of its biggest markets.

The instruction came roughly a month after President Donald Trump said he would allow Nvidia to sell H200s to China, marking the biggest rollback of Biden-era export restrictions. At the time, the reaction of the Chinese government was uncertain, as Beijing had been pushing local companies to buy locally made chips as a way of supporting the Chinese chip industry.