️🇺🇸🇨🇳 Reuters: A Chinese university with close ties to the PLA has purchased two of Nvidia's advanced H200 artificial intelligence chips despite being on a US export blacklist.
Northwestern Polytechnic University, part of China's "Seven Sons of National Defense" group of defense-focused institutions, paid 874,700 yuan ($123,000) to a local supplier, rather than Nvidia directly, for the chips in October.
Procurement and corporations indicate that a number of Chinese universities and research institutions, including organizations associated with defense research, have obtained U.S.-restricted Nvidia processors or access to computing services operated by them.