US-China tech war

US greenlights Nvidia H200 chip exports to China

[WASHINGTON] The Trump administration on Tuesday gave the green light to China-bound sales of Nvidia’s second most powerful AI chips, putting in place a rule that will likely kickstart shipments of th...

Zhipu AI chairman Liu Debing (centre) at the company’s listing ceremony at the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on Thursday (Jan 8).

Chinese tech firms rise in Hong Kong debut as US-China tech race heats up

The trio’s performance will help gauge whether Hong Kong can extend last year’s IPO resurgence

Lenders are getting cautious despite strong demand from tech companies for financing for fear of incurring Washington's wrath.

Asia bankers fear US scrutiny of loans involving chips, China

The backlash against US capital flowing into an AI ecosystem linked to Chinese firms can be swift

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (right) has lobbied US President Donald Trump to reverse export restrictions on AI chips to China.

Nvidia and the Trump administration: Commerce, competition and controversy

How the tech giant’s deal with the government could shift US industrial policy and constitutional limits

Although China’s domestically produced chips have made significant progress over the past two years, there remains a clear performance gap compared with Nvidia's H200 chip.

Why China isn’t rushing to buy Nvidia’s H200 AI chip

The US is offering China Nvidia’s second-fastest AI chip, the H200, but Beijing is holding back. Behind the hesitation lies a high-stakes struggle over technology, control, and the future of domestic ...

The H200 is part of the Hopper generation of Nvidia’s chips, second-best to the Blackwell line and two generations behind the upcoming Rubin series.

China is ‘rejecting’ Nvidia’s H200 chips, outfoxing US strategy, David Sacks says

The Asian nation is weighing a package of incentives worth as much as US$70 billion to support its local chipmaking industry

Major players such as Alibaba Group Holding and Baidu are making headway into the semiconductors that underpin AI development, one of Beijing’s top priorities.

Chinese AI euphoria obscures a gloomier technological reality

Washington and its allies are not supplying the country with the gear required to make the most sophisticated AI chips

While Trump pledged Nvidia’s top products would remain off bounds, the move gives China access to semiconductors at least a generation ahead of its best technology.

Trump’s Nvidia deal reshapes US’s China strategy, risks supercharging Xi’s AI push

The Asian nation has challenged America’s chip curbs this year with its own export controls on rare earths

The chip, known as the B30A, can be utilised to train large language models when efficiently arranged in large clusters, a capability many Chinese companies require, the report added.

US to block Nvidia’s sale of scaled-down AI chips to China, The Information reports

THE White House has informed other federal agencies that it will not permit Nvidia to sell its latest scaled-down AI chips to China, The Information reported on Thursday, citing three people familiar ...