en.Wedoany.com Reported - China's Lenovo Group officially confirmed on May 14 that the company has been approved as an authorized distributor of Nvidia H200 artificial intelligence chips in the Chinese market. In a statement to Reuters, Lenovo Group stated that the company is "one of several companies approved to sell the H200 in China," and that this authorization is part of Nvidia's export license.
The U.S. Department of Commerce approved approximately 10 Chinese companies to purchase Nvidia H200 chips this time, with approved enterprises including internet companies such as Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance, and JD.com. In addition to Lenovo, Foxconn also obtained distribution authorization for the H200 chip. According to the license terms set by the U.S. government, each approved enterprise can purchase up to 75,000 H200 chips, either by ordering directly from Nvidia or through authorized distributors like Lenovo and Foxconn.
The partnership between Lenovo and Nvidia continues to deepen. As the global launch partner for Nvidia's rack-scale AI supercomputer Vera Rubin NVL72, Lenovo announced on March 16 that it will collaborate with Nvidia to build an AI cloud super factory, focusing on AI inference platforms and agentic AI solutions. Foxconn is also a key manufacturing partner for Nvidia's AI servers and rack systems, with both parties having jointly invested approximately $1.4 billion to build an AI supercomputing center.
The Nvidia H200 chip is based on the Hopper architecture, equipped with 141GB of HBM3e memory, a memory bandwidth of 4.8TB/s, and support for NVLink 4.0 and PCIe 5.0, specifically designed for large model training and inference scenarios. Previously, due to U.S. government concerns that the product could help China develop military technology, Nvidia was prohibited from selling H200 processors to China. In December 2025, the U.S. government shifted its policy, allowing Nvidia to sell H200 chips to China under the condition of an additional 25% tariff, with sales limited to customers vetted and approved by the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Nvidia once held approximately 95% of China's high-end AI chip market, and the Chinese market once contributed 13% of its revenue. However, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stated on April 30 this year that the company's direct sales share in the Chinese market has completely dropped to zero. Huang had previously estimated that the scale of China's AI computing power market would reach $50 billion, making China a crucial part of Nvidia's global growth strategy.
Lenovo Group is a globally leading ICT technology company, headquartered in Hong Kong, China, with operations spanning 180 markets worldwide. With its new IT architecture covering all elements of "device-edge-cloud-network-intelligence," Lenovo provides global users with smart devices, data centers, cloud services, and industry-specific intelligent solutions. Becoming a distributor of Nvidia H200 chips in China will further consolidate Lenovo's position in China's enterprise-grade AI infrastructure market.
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