US approves Nvidia H200 sales to empty Chinese firm with blacklisted ties

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The Verge reported that the US government approved Nvidia H200 AI chip sales to New Matrix, a Chinese firm created 17 months ago whose listed offices are empty and whose owners have ties to a private equity firm blacklisted by the US since 2024. The Trump administration relaxed prior Biden-era limits after Nvidia agreed to give the government a 15-percent cut of all sales. [1]

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  1. The US let Nvidia sell chips to an empty office in China

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