Economy
Report: Restricted Chinese university buys Nvidia chips through local supplier
A Chinese university subject to US export restrictions reportedly bought two H200 chips for about $123,000 through a local supplier, rather than directly from Nvidia. The institution has defense research links, but the report does not establish that the military received the chips. Their origins and server locations were not clarified in the records. Photo: Reuters, Jensen Huang, illustrative.
· Photo: Reuters, Jensen Huang, illustrative
According to Walla, citing Reuters, Northwestern Polytechnical University in China bought two H200 chips from a local supplier despite US export restrictions applying to the institution.
According to an October 21 procurement record described in the report, the two chips were bought for the School of Management for 874,700 yuan, about $123,000. The supplier was Shaanxi Bosuan Network Technology; this was not a direct purchase from Nvidia.
The Xi'an university conducts defense-related research and is on a US restrictions list. The report says it also rented computing services containing advanced chips. The records provide little information about chip origins or server locations; institutional military links do not prove the military received or used these two chips.
Source: Walla
