China has not yet received any Nvidia H200 chips, US official says

Published Wed, Feb 25, 2026 · 07:40 AM

[WASHINGTON] None of Nvidia’s second-most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) chips, known as the H200, have been sold yet to Chinese customers, a US Commerce Department official said on Tuesday (Feb 24).

“My understanding is that none so far,” Commerce Assistant Secretary for Export Enforcement David Peters said at a congressional hearing when asked about the prized semiconductors.

The Chinese Embassy in Washington and Nvidia did not immediately respond to requests for comment. US President Donald Trump’s administration last month gave a formal green light to China-bound sales of Nvidia’s H200 chips with conditions, drawing fire from US lawmakers and former officials, both Democratic and Republican.

The administration, led by White House AI czar David Sacks, has said shipping advanced AI chips to China discourages Chinese competitors, such as heavily sanctioned Huawei, from redoubling efforts to catch up with the most advanced chip designs from Nvidia and AMD.

But China hawks fear chips could easily be diverted from commercial uses to help supercharge China’s military and threaten US dominance in AI. For now, shipments of the chips remain stalled over guardrails built into the process. REUTERS