19 August 2026
Chinese firms access advanced Nvidia chips through overseas cloud services
First reported
CNBC, TechRadar and 1 other ran this on , a day before the next source picked it up.
- ByteDance and Tencent each obtained approximately 10,000 H200 processors, chips two generations behind Nvidia's most advanced models, which China cannot directly purchase due to U.S. export controls.
- Chinese companies remotely accessed Nvidia's most powerful GB300 chips via data centers in Thailand, Malaysia, and other Southeast Asian countries, exploiting a legal gap in U.S. export regulations that restrict physical chip sales but not remote access.
How it was covered
Reported by The Decoder, CNBC, TechRadar