About 600,000 Nvidia H200 AI chips are stored in Hong Kong awaiting shipment to mainland China, Reuters reported citing sources. Beijing has not approved large-scale imports, though some chips have entered the country in recent months and several major Chinese internet companies each received about 10,000. With authorized supply limited by U.S. export controls in place since 2022, buyers have turned to intermediaries and indirect routes, pushing up unofficial-market prices: an eight-card H200 server was offered for over 6 million yuan ($900,000) by end-October, about three times its price a year earlier. ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent also reportedly ordered over 3 million export-compliant RTX Pro 5500 cards, with a combined sticker price exceeding $35 billion.
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