US may allow ByteDance to buy NVIDIA's H200 chips
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The US government is thinking about letting ByteDance, the company behind TikTok, buy NVIDIA's H200 chips—but it's not a done deal yet.
For this to happen, NVIDIA would have to agree to strict rules from the US, like tough Know-Your-Customer checks designed to keep these advanced chips away from China's military.
NVIDIA is caught in the middle of tech tug-of-war
NVIDIA finds itself in the middle of tricky tech talks between the US and China.
The US wants chipmakers like NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel to follow similar rules—think KYC checks, outside lab testing, and even a 25% fee paid back to the government.
Meanwhile, China has already given early approval for companies like ByteDance and Tencent to import these chips, showing just how tense things are getting in global tech trade right now.