NVIDIA has resumed selling its H200 AI chips in China. This comes after the company received several approvals from the US government and new orders from Chinese customers in the past two weeks, according to the Financial Times.
CEO Jensen Huang said NVIDIA restarted production after faulting earlier due to uncertainty about regulatory approvals.
Huang explained that with recent regulatory changes and new purchase orders, NVIDIA resumed manufacturing after overcoming approval uncertainty. The supply chain is getting back up and running as a result.
Huang said that U.S. President Donald Trump wants the country to remain at the forefront of AI technology and remain competitive globally.
President Trump’s intention is for the US to hold a leadership position and gain access to NVIDIA’s best technology, Hwang said. However, he would also like us to compete worldwide and not unnecessarily concede those markets.
What Led Nvidia to Heart Production Earlier?
NVIDIA has been trying for almost a year to sell advanced AI chips in China because of changes in U.S. trade policy under President Trump.
A deal with the White House, announced in December 2025, allowed NVIDIA to sell H200 chips to Chinese customers if the company gave the US government 25% of revenue from those sales. The H200 chips, which are one generation older than NVIDIA’s most advanced GPUs, became eligible for sale under this policy adjustment.
NVIDIA resumed chip production after the bill but faced delays when U.S. officials took longer than expected to review export licenses, and Chinese authorities were slow to approve large imports. As a result, Nvidia paused production again.
NVIDIA also had problems exporting its H20 processor, which was made for the Chinese market. The Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. Commerce Department stopped exports of H20 in April last year, but reversed its decision in August.
However, following the U.S. policy change, Chinese authorities advised local companies against buying the H20, leading NVIDIA to halt H20 production in late August.
With the latest approval, major Chinese tech firms like Alibaba and ByteDance may soon buy Nvidia’s AI chips pending Chinese regulatory clearance.
Source: Nvidia resumes production of AI chips for sale in China after US approval
