China says no to NVIDIA H200 chips
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The company's Starcloud-1 satellite is running Gemma, an open model from Google, marking the first time in history that an LLM has been trained in outer space.
Generally speaking, Nvidia’s DLSS technologies have provided better image quality than AMD’s FSR, but they have only been available on newer Nvidia hardware—the GeForce RTX 20-series or newer for most features,
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Exclusive-ByteDance, Alibaba keen to order Nvidia H200 chips after Trump green light, sources say
BEIJING/SINGAPORE, Dec 10 (Reuters) - ByteDance and Alibaba have asked Nvidia about buying its powerful H200 AI chip after U.S. President Donald Trump said he would allow it to be exported to China, four people briefed on the matter told Reuters.
Starcloud flew up the Nvidia H100 enterprise GPU on a test satellite on Nov. 2. Major players including SpaceX, Google, and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos have discussed doing the same.
President Trump will allow the company to sell its powerful H200 chips to the Chinese—provided the U.S. gets a cut.
Sullivan, a former Biden-era national security advisor who helped design AI chip export curbs on China, told the NYT that Trump’s move was “nuts” because “China’s main problem” in the AI race “is they don’t have enough advanced computing capability.”
Donald Trump’s decision to allow Nvidia Corp. to sell advanced chips to China marks more than just a shift in US tech policy. It also raises questions about how far he’ll go to steady ties with Xi Jinping.
President Trump’s decision to allow Nvidia to sell its chips to China has raised questions about whether he is prioritizing short-term economic gain over long-term American security interests.
In a recent CNBC interview, CEO Jensen Huang even urged investors to treat China as “a bonus opportunity in the future,” saying that Nvidia’s “demand is really strong” even without that market. However, when the U.S. just approved sales of the H200 chip, the reaction was mostly a shrug.