Late last year, the US government finally allowed NVIDIA to sell its AI processing component, the NVIDIA H200, to Chinese companies without any restrictions, but it must give the US government a 25 percent cut of the sales.
Recently, it was reported that although there are no obstacles to this sale, NVIDIA seems to be asking companies that buy the AI processing components for full payment for the supplies before they are shipped to China.
Not only that, any component orders made cannot be changed or canceled, but Chinese companies can replace part of the payment with commercial insurance or collateral assets.
NVIDIA is already preparing to export a large number of NVIDIA H200 AI chips to companies in China before the Chinese New Year celebration in mid-February. It is expected that NVIDIA will continue to do so after the holiday celebration in the two to three weeks after that.
Although the Chinese government has said that they will no longer buy NVIDIA's AI processing components, they still allow local companies to buy them, but without financial and other assistance from the government, which wants them to use only local solutions.
