The Chinese government granted Chinese tech giants ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent approvals to purchase a combined total of more than 400,000 Nvidia H200 chips, according to Reuters sources on Jan. 28. There are reportedly conditions on these purchases (potentially related to the ratio of imports versus domestic chip use), while companies are not yet using these approvals to purchase chips, and more Chinese companies are applying for approvals.
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