U.S. clears H200 chip sales to 10 China firms as Nvidia CEO looks for breakthrough

Cnbc · 🇨🇳 public China · May 14, 2026 · 837 words · By WATCH LIVE

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has cleared around 10 Chinese firms to buy Nvidia's second-most powerful AI chip, the H200, but not a single delivery has been made so far, three people familiar with the matter said, leaving a major technology deal in limbo as CEO Jensen Huang seeks a…

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Huang, who was not initially listed in a White House delegation to Beijing, joined the trip after an invitation from President Donald Trump, a source said.

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Trump picked him up in Alaska en route to a summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping, raising hopes the trip could finally unlock stalled efforts to sell the H200 chips in China.

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Claim 1: “Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick... telling a Senate hearing last month that "the Chinese central government has not let them, as of yet, buy the chips"”

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Claim 2: “Nvidia must also certify sufficient inventory in the United States.”

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Claim 3: “the chips to pass through U.S. territory before being shipped to China, as U.S. law does not permit the direct imposition of export fees.”

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Claim 4: “A handful of distributors including Lenovo 0992.HK and Foxconn 2317.TW have also been approved”

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Claim 5: “Huang has previously estimated the country's AI market alone would be worth $50 billion this year.”

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Multiple sources (The Times of India and another earnings-related search result) confirm that Jensen Huang estimated the China AI market would be worth $50 billion.

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web search NEUTRAL — CEO Jensen Huang estimated on an earnings call that the market would be worth $50 billion in revenue next year and could grow 50% on a yearly basis. The impact: The initial market reaction to Nvidia's…
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/27/nvidia-earnings-revenue-jen…

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web search NEUTRAL — Jensen Huang estimated that he AI market in China is worth $50 billion to Nvidia.Nvidia, meanwhile, sees the China market as a major opportunity, with Huang estimating it could be worth $50 billion fo…
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/nvi…

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web search NEUTRAL — Nvidia’s CEO to Miss China Trip After Year of Travels With Trump.Huang’s presence in Trump’s orbit extended to official White House visits last year to the Middle East and the UK, where the president …
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-11/nvidia-s-…

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Claim 6: “Huang... joined the trip after an invitation from President Donald Trump”

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Multiple independent sources (CNBC, and other web search results) confirm that Jensen Huang joined the trip after an invitation from President Donald Trump.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — From 13 to 15 May 2026, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, is making a state visit to China. This visit is Trump's second state visit to China, and the first to occur during his second …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_state_visit_by_Donald_Tru…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The foreign policy of the second Trump administration has espoused a realist "America First" foreign policy agenda. It has been described as imperialist and expansionist in its approach to the America…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_policy_of_the_second_T…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Following is a list of some notable students and alumni of Stanford University.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Stanford_University_al…

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Claim 7: “China once accounted for 13% of its revenue”

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One specific web search result (Bloomberg/related) mentions that China previously accounted for about 13% of Nvidia's overall revenue. Other sources mention $17 billion but not the 13% percentage specifically.

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web search NEUTRAL — Total equity.Nvidia sold about a million RIVA 128 units within four months,[27] and used the revenue to fund development of its next generation of products.[36] In 1998, the release of the RIVA TNT he…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia

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web search NEUTRAL — China previously accounted for about 13% of Nvidia’s overall revenue before export restrictions intensified.“Any agreement that permits Nvidia to increase chip sales to China results in fewer chips av…
https://www.arise.tv/nvidia-ceo-huang-joins-trumps-china-tri…

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web search NEUTRAL — China accounted for $17 billion of Nvidia’s revenue during its last fiscal year, according to the advisory firm Bernstein Research. Nvidia has spent months lobbying politicians across Washington to ke…
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/business/nvidia-jensen-hu…

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Claim 8: “Huang has warned that U.S. export controls are eroding the company's foothold in the market, saying its share of AI accelerators in China has effectively fallen to zero.”

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Claim 9: “Huang told state broadcaster CCTV on Thursday that he hoped Trump and Xi would build on their good relationship during talks in Beijing to improve two-way ties.”

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Claim 10: “not a single delivery has been made so far”

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While sources mention that the H200 is a target for purchase and that China may regulate them, no source explicitly confirms that 'not a single delivery has been made so far'.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Hopper is a graphics processing unit (GPU) microarchitecture developed by Nvidia. It is designed for datacenters and is used alongside the Lovelace microarchitecture. Named for computer scientist and …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopper_(microarchitecture)

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Nvidia Corporation ( en-VID-ee-ə) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. The company develops graphics processing units (GPUs), systems on chips (SoC…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Nvidia Tesla is the former name for a line of products developed by Nvidia targeted at stream processing or general-purpose graphics processing units (GPGPU), named after pioneering electrical enginee…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_Tesla

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Claim 11: “Trump negotiated an arrangement under which the U.S. would receive 25% of the revenue from the chip sales”

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Claim 12: “U.S. rules issued in January require Chinese buyers to demonstrate they had installed "sufficient security procedures" and would not use the chips for military purposes.”

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Claim 13: “Lenovo confirmed in a statement to Reuters that the company "is one of several companies approved to sell H200 in China as part of Nvidia's export license."”

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Claim 14: “The U.S. has cleared around 10 Chinese firms to buy Nvidia's second-most powerful AI chip, the H200”

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The provided evidence for claim 0 consists of irrelevant results about the letter 'U' and general Nvidia/GPU Wikipedia pages. No source confirms the specific number of firms cleared to buy H200 chips.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The GeForce 10 series is a series of graphics processing units (GPUs) developed by Nvidia, initially based on the Pascal microarchitecture announced in March 2014. It succeeds the GeForce 900 series, …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_10_series

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The GeForce RTX 50 series of consumer graphics cards is the successor of Nvidia's GeForce 40 series. Announced at CES 2025, it debuted with the release of the RTX 5070, RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 in Januar…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_RTX_50_series

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Claim 15: “The U.S. Commerce Department has approved around 10 Chinese companies including Alibaba 9988.HK, Tencent 0700.HK, ByteDance and JD.com 9618.HK to purchase Nvidia's NVDA.O H200 chips”

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The provided evidence for this claim consists of dictionary definitions of the letter 'U' and is completely irrelevant to the claim about the Commerce Department and specific companies.

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web search NEUTRAL — U (minuscule: u) is the twenty-first letter and the fifth vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet and the alphabets of other western European languages and others world…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U

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web search NEUTRAL — Definition of U noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/englis…

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web search NEUTRAL — 'U' is the twenty-first letter and the fifth vowel letter of the English alphabet. Vowels are sounds that are pronounced without any restriction in the vocal tract. It means we can produce it with the…
https://langeek.co/en/grammar/course/952/the-letter-u

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Claim 16: “Trump picked him up in Alaska en route to a summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping”

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Multiple sources report that Huang joined the trip and boarded Air Force One en route to Beijing via Alaska.

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web search NEUTRAL — Nvidia confirmed to CNBC that CEO Jensen Huang will visit China this week. Huang was invited by U.S. President Donald Trump, the company said.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/13/nvidia-says-ceo-jensen-huang…

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web search NEUTRAL — Nvidia's Jensen Huang joined sixteen other top business executives and President Trump on his trip this week to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/article/nvidias-jen…

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web search NEUTRAL — Jensen Huang joins Trump's China trip after last-minute White House invite. The Nvidia CEO reportedly boarded Air Force One en route to Beijing via Alaska.
https://invezz.com/news/2026/05/13/nvidia-ceo-joins-trumps-c…

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Claim 17: “each approved customer can purchase up to 75,000 chips under the U.S. licensing terms”

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Claim 18: “Before U.S. export curbs tightened, Nvidia commanded about 95% of China's advanced chip market.”

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The provided evidence for this claim consists of general Nvidia Wikipedia and driver pages; none of them mention the 95% market share figure.

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web search NEUTRAL — Nvidia ... Nvidia Corporation[a] (/ ɛnˈvɪdiə / en-VID-ee-ə) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia

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web search NEUTRAL — Download the latest official NVIDIA drivers to enhance your PC gaming experience and run apps faster.
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/

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web search NEUTRAL — Download drivers for NVIDIA products including GeForce graphics cards, nForce motherboards, Quadro workstations, and more. Update your graphics card drivers today.
https://www.nvidia.co.uk/Download/indexsg.aspx?lang=en-us

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Claim 19: “the State Council issued two recent supply chain security regulations”

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