We reported recently that the US government may cap exports of Nvidia's H200 chip to China. But for that cap to be meaningful, China would need to approve imports of H200 in the first place. According to multiple sources, that has now happened.
Both Reuters and the Wall Street Journal report that Chinese authorities have now approved the importation of H200 AI GPUs. H200 is the full-fat version of Nvidia's Hopper generation of AI GPUs. In other words, it's not the cut-down H20 GPU that Nvidia created to slip in under earlier export restrictions that limited the maximum capability of AI GPUs that could be sent to China.
