The U.S. approved H200 chip sales to ten Chinese firms including Alibaba, Tencent, and ByteDance — up to 75,000 chips each — but not a single unit has shipped as Beijing steers buyers away from American hardware.
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Jensen Huang joins Trump’s China trip in bid to end the H200 chip stalemate
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang joined Trump’s Beijing delegation at the last minute to push for H200 AI chip sales to China, which remain blocked despite US authorization granted months ago.
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Trump’s January chip order rewrites the rules on AI hardware exports
A January 2026 presidential proclamation imposing a 25 percent tariff on imported AI chips, combined with a BIS rule shifting export review of advanced chips from presumption of denial to case-by-case, has restructured who can buy the most powerful AI hardware and on what terms.
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Nvidia guides to $78 billion for Q1 as Blackwell demand stays ahead of supply
The chipmaker’s fiscal first-quarter results, due May 20, carry $78 billion in management guidance — a sequential increase from the $68.1 billion reported in Q4 — driven almost entirely by data center orders for its Blackwell architecture platform from hyperscale cloud providers.