Tagged: export controls

China / Technology / United States

 by Jaffa Levy

China Turns Trump’s Nvidia H200 Deal Into Another Tool for Self Reliance

Donald Trump has reopened the door for Nvidia’s H200 sales to approved customers in China. Beijing’s response is not to celebrate but to ration access, shield Huawei and deepen its own AI hardware stack. This article follows on from our investigation into offshore Chinese model training and explains how both Washington and Beijing now run export style controls on the same chip.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) / China

 by Jaffa Levy

China’s Nvidia Ban Is Pushing Alibaba, ByteDance and DeepSeek Offshore for AI Training

China’s artificial intelligence giants are not only dodging United States export controls. They are also navigating Beijing’s clampdown on Nvidia. New rules that bar fresh Nvidia deployments in Chinese data centres are pushing Alibaba, ByteDance and DeepSeek to rent GPU farms in Singapore and Malaysia, even as they are forced to build a parallel stack on Huawei and other domestic chips at home.