{"id":144682,"date":"2026-01-22T07:30:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T07:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=144682"},"modified":"2026-01-22T07:30:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T07:30:03","slug":"china-techs-gpu-dilemma-pay-more-for-black-market-h200s-or-use-slower-local-ai-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=144682","title":{"rendered":"China tech\u2019s GPU dilemma: pay more for black-market H200s, or use slower local AI chips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostChinese AI companies wanting high-performance artificial intelligence chips from Nvidia are facing a dilemma: source them from the black market at much higher prices, or accept lower performance domestic alternatives from the likes of Huawei Technologies.<br \/>\nThat is because Chinese customs officials are currently holding Nvidia\u2019s H200 chips at the border, despite Washington granting approval for the US company to ship its second most advanced graphics processing unit (GPU) to China, according to&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/big-tech\/article\/3340810\/china-techs-gpu-dilemma-pay-more-h200-black-market-or-accept-slower-local-ai-chips?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostChinese AI companies wanting high-performance artificial intelligence chips from Nvidia are facing a dilemma: source them from the black market at much higher prices,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144682"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}