Nvidia is now requiring its clients in China to pay upfront in full for its H200 AI chips whilst approval stateside and from Beijing stays unsure, Reuters reported, citing nameless sources.
The chipmaker isn’t leaving any room for refunds or adjustments to orders, the report stated.
Whereas some clients could also be allowed to make use of industrial insurance coverage or asset collateral, the phrases are far stricter than Nvidia’s earlier insurance policies, which typically permitted partial deposits, Reuters reported.
Nvidia declined to remark.
China is predicted to permit Nvidia to promote its H200 chips within the nation, per Bloomberg, although Beijing needs to stop the chips from being utilized by its navy, state-owned companies, and delicate infrastructure issues.
Regardless of the challenges, demand for Nvidia’s H200 stays robust, and Chinese language corporations have reportedly positioned orders for greater than 2 million of the GPUs in 2026, prompting the chipmaker to ramp up manufacturing.
Nvidia is making an attempt to strike a cautious stability between assembly robust demand for its chips whereas managing political danger in each the U.S. and China. The U.S. chipmaker suffered expensive setbacks when the Trump administration stated it might want a license to export its H20 chips to China, forcing the corporate to jot down down $5.5 billion value of stock.
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