PLA-linked Chinese university bought Nvidia H200 chips despite US blacklist, records show

Northwestern Polytechnical University, a Xi'an school in China's "Seven Sons of National Defence" group that has been on the US Entity List since 2001, bought two Nvidia H200 chips in October for 874,700 yuan (about $123,000) through local supplier Shaanxi Bosuan Network Technology, according to procurement records reviewed by Reuters. The university also rented servers with H200, A100 and A800 chips through Chinese providers this year. A Reuters review of 26 records found Chinese universities and research institutes, several with defence ties, obtaining restricted Nvidia computing through domestic intermediaries. Nvidia and the Commerce Department did not comment.