Defense-Linked Chinese Universities Seek Nvidia H200 AI Chips
Bloomberg reports that Beihang University and Northwestern Polytechnical University—two of China’s Seven Sons of National Defense—are pursuing Nvidia’s H200 chips, the most powerful US-approved AI processors allowed in China, via leases and brokers; the schools have ties to the military and have been blacklisted by the US, reflecting China’s push to access advanced AI hardware despite export controls.