The U.S. government has formally approved the export of Nvidia’s high-performance H200 AI chips to China, reinstating access to a class of silicon previously barred under national data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/security” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/security”>security rules. Sales will be allowed to select Chinese customers pending government review, and each chip must be routed through U.S. territory for inspection and accompanied by a 25% import duty. The move ends a freeze that ultimately led to Nvidia data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/alibaba-slashes-gpu-usage-by-82-percent-with-new-pooling-system” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/alibaba-slashes-gpu-usage-by-82-percent-with-new-pooling-system”>losing its entire Chinese market share and upended development plans for…
