Chinese university buys Nvidia H200 chips despite US blacklist
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Al Jazeera reported that Northwestern Polytechnical University, a member of China’s “Seven Sons of National Defense” group, bought two Nvidia H200 AI chips last month for 874,700 yuan ($123,000) through Shaanxi Bosuan Network Technology, despite being on the US Entity List since 2001. The university also rented access to H200 chips and other Nvidia AI processors through five contracts this year. The purchases occurred even though the US Department of Commerce added the university to the Entity List in 2001 over alleged missile-proliferation activities and tightened restrictions in 2019. [1]
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- Chinese university buys Nvidia AI H200 chips despite US ban, records show
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