US approved Nvidia H200 sales to a Chinese shell company with an empty office
emmanuelvivier · x · 2026-11-08
- Per NYT/The Verge, New Matrix — approved to buy Nvidia H200 chips for assembling AI servers — operates out of an empty office; the building directory and property managers have no record of the 17-month-old company.
- Its owners have ties to a Chinese private equity firm blacklisted by the US since 2024.
- The report suggests a pattern: Commerce Department and Nvidia vetting is failing, with firms linked to restricted entities repeatedly cleared to purchase AI chips, exposing holes in export controls.
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