
President Donald Trump has said that Beijing is refusing to let Chinese companies buy Nvidia's H200 AI chips, telling reporters aboard Air Force One after the conclusion of a two-day summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping that China "chose not to" approve the purchases because "they want to develop their own," according to Bloomberg.
The remarks came a day after a report claiming the U.S. Commerce Department had cleared roughly 10 Chinese firms to buy H200s, including Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance, and JD.com, but no chips have shipped.