Commerce official says Nvidia H200 AI chips have been shipped to China
July 16, 2025, China, Beijing: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks to reporters. During his trip to China, Huang spoke at the opening of a supply chain trade fair and met with Chinese politicians. Photo: Johannes Neudecker/dpa (Photo: Johannes Neudecker/image alliance via Getty Images)
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“Very little,” a senior US trade official said on Tuesday. Nvidia’s H200 AI chips were shipped to China and Hong Kong.
“As a result, very few shipments of licenses for H200 and equivalents have been made. This is a very small amount of chips,” Undersecretary of Commerce for Industry and Security Jeffery Kessler said at a congressional hearing. he said.
This announcement is a sign that H200 shipments to China have resumed and will likely increase Nvidia’s sales even further. Since last year, Nvidia has excluded potential AI chip revenue in China from its forecasts, and CEO Jensen Huang said on CNBC in May that he told investors “not to expect anything” from China sales.
An Nvidia representative declined to comment.
Nvidia has long been trying to ship AI chips to China, one of the biggest markets for AI development, but has found itself in the middle of a trade and technology war between Washington and Beijing because many of the company’s products are under export restrictions to China.
In December, President Donald Trump said the US government would approve the sale of the H200 AI chip to China in exchange for a 25% cut. Licenses for the chips, which some people in the administration said could be used for military purposes, were granted earlier this year.
The H200 is an older Nvidia chip in the Hopper generation; American companies are currently using faster and more powerful Blackwell chips.
The U.S. government evaluates companies wanting H200 chips on a case-by-case basis, with applicants required to meet national security requirements and submit to inspections to make sure the chips are compatible, Kessler said.
“There are cases where we have rejected license applications that we have received,” Kessler said.
However, it is not yet clear whether China will ultimately approve large amounts of chip imports. Without Nvidia chips, Chinese companies will have to use domestic alternatives that are considered inadequate in terms of artificial intelligence training.
