Nvidia is reportedly considering increasing H200 production to meet growing demand in China

Yet successfully Pressure on the Trump administration To approve sales of H200 chips to China, Nvidia is now considering ramping up chip production as Chinese companies rush to place orders, Reuters reported, citing anonymous sources.

The most powerful of Nvidia’s previous generation Hopper GPUs designed to train large language models, the H200 chips could not previously be sold in China, as the previous Biden administration did Proposed rules to limit sales of the country’s advanced artificial intelligence chips. But the Commerce Department last week gave Nvidia approval to sell H200 GPUs in China, in exchange for a 25% cut in sales of those chips.

Reuters reported that Nvidia is now seeing such strong demand from Chinese companies that it is considering adding more capacity. However, Chinese officials are still deciding whether to allow imports of the H200 chips, which are said to be much more powerful than the H20 GPUs that Nvidia has earmarked for sale in China.

For the chipmaker, expanding production of H200 GPUs will allow it to tap into latent demand in a country racing to… Developing its own domestic artificial intelligence chips. Competition and national security concerns in the West have hampered the availability of the latest and most powerful devices to train artificial intelligence models in China, as companies resorted to… Focus on efficiency at scale.

The report added that Chinese companies, including Alibaba and ByteDance, that are developing their own AI models, have already been in contact with Nvidia about large orders for H200 chips, which are being produced in limited quantities.

Nvidia did not immediately respond to a request for comment.