China began allowing purchases of Nvidia’s powerful H200 chips for the first time, pointing to a nascent US-China rapprochement ahead of a planned visit by President Donald Trump in April.
The first Nvidia approvals went to three of China’s tech giants — ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent — Reuters reported, after the US greenlit their exports last month.
It was previously unclear whether China would allow the sales given its push for high-tech self-sufficiency.
But the approval suggests the “extreme hunger for high-quality computing power” from China’s tech scene is taking priority, a Taiwan-based expert said.