US government is ‘working feverishly’ on Nvidia licenses for China, ship date still unknown 

US government is ‘working feverishly’ on Nvidia licenses for China, ship date still unknown 

By Reuters
Publication Date: 2026-01-06 17:13:00

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, Jan 6 (Reuters) – The United States government is “working feverishly” on license applications for Nvidia to ship its H200 chips to China, but the company still does not know when they will be approved, Nvidia’s chief financial officer said on Tuesday.

In an interview with a JP Morgan analyst at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, Nvidia CFO Colette Kress said that the company is seeing strong demand for its H200 chips from China after President Donald Trump reversed a longstanding ban on sending the chips to China last year.

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Reporting by Stephen Nellis in Las Vegas, Nevada

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