ZTE among Chinese firms licensed to purchase Nvidia's H200 chips, documents show

Reuters reported in May that the U.S. had cleared around 10 Chinese firms, including Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance and JD.com, to buy the Nvidia chips, but that no deliveries had been made at that time as the deals remained caught between approval requirements and scrutiny in both Washington and Beijing.

However, some Chinese cloud firms have recently told partners and clients they may soon be able to obtain H200 chips, the sources said, indicating some progress in import reviews by Chinese authorities.

ZTE, Maginfra, Kingsoft, Nvidia, AMD and China's Ministry of Commerce did not respond to requests for comment. The U.S. Bureau of Industry and Security - the Commerce Department agency overseeing export controls - did not immediately reply to a request for comment.