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U.S. Approves Nvidia H200 Chip Sales to 10 Chinese Firms

According to the new report, Beijing halted the approved Nvidia H200 purchases after objecting to a U.S. transit requirement and a 25% fee, leaving all planned shipments on hold.

Fact Check
The claim is directly and consistently confirmed by a Reuters exclusive report published May 14, 2026, sourced via both the Reuters shortlink (resolving to jp.reuters.com) and the Yahoo Finance Canada mirror of the same article. Reuters journalist Dan Nystedt's X post (@dnystedt) further corroborates all key details. All three sources confirm: (1) U.S. approved Nvidia H200 chip sales to approximately 10 Chinese firms; (2) approved buyers include Alibaba, ByteDance, and Tencent (the claim omits JD.com, which is also on the list, but this is a minor omission rather than an inaccuracy); (3) Lenovo and Foxconn distributors were cleared; (4) no deliveries have been made yet. The minor discrepancy is that the claim says 'Foxconn distributors' while sources clarify Foxconn itself (Taiwan's Hon Hai subsidiary) is the distributor. Overall, the claim is substantively accurate.
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Summary

The United States approved Nvidia H200 chip sales to about 10 Chinese companies, with each company cleared to buy up to 75,000 chips. Approved buyers included Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance and JD.com. However, no shipments were completed because China halted the purchases after Beijing rejected a U.S. requirement that the chips transit through the United States and objected to a 25% fee tied to the arrangement. The new report materially changes the earlier picture by indicating that the approved deals did not proceed after the Chinese side stopped the purchases.

Terms & Concepts
  • H200 chip: Nvidia's advanced AI processor designed for AI training, inference, and high-performance data center workloads.