China blocks Nvidia H200 AI chips that US government cleared for export – report | Nvidia

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/17/china-blocks-nvidia-h200-ai-chips-that-us-government-cleared-for-export-report

16 Comments

  1. objectivelywrongbro on

    They’re on the precipice of building their own very capable GPU’s. They may be late, they may lose the AI race, but what they’ll retain is complete independence from the US.

    Also, if the AI bubble does pop – they’ll of not dumped their own money into propping up the US economy – only their own money developing tech independence.

  2. Stunting on the US lmao. I love this. I wonder what would’ve happened if the US and China were closer geographically like US-Canada

  3. Loose_Skill6641 on

    lmao Jensen courts trump to sell H200 to China, eventually Trump gives into the constant glazing and allows it and China is like nah we don’t want it anyway

  4. I mean, those chips might be full of malwares and back doors that give the US access into Chinese infrastructure. For security reasons China would want to block them.

  5. Why would the Chinese pay for second rate chips? I bet they’ll scoop up the top of the line B200, and the GB200 GPUs! If you want their money, sell China what they want.

  6. They probably already have them through grey channels and now probably have their own. With a move like this helps popping the bubble.

  7. You can’t use our flagship chips

    Ok

    Hey, you know what? It’s okay you can use them

    Nah, we good

  8. Looks like Chinese leadership is quite confident they can produce capable next generation AI chips..massive implications for the world.

  9. Just look at how China is going all open source, while US ai companies are all hiding behind fake “open source” names.

    You know who will win the race. Remember Android.

  10. The fact that China is this far along with building their own modern gpus is surprising to me, i did not expect them to reach this level for another 3-5 years at a bare minimum.

  11. Makes sense tbh.

    If they are crucial then the US has shown them this year that they can’t trust the US to not throw random fits and upset the apple cart. It’s good for China for them to move away from reliance on the US as quickly as possible.