Northwestern Polytechnical University, on the U.S. Entity List, named a supplier for two Nvidia H200 cards in an Oct. 21 result; the H200 case-by-case route excludes transactions involving the university.
The university’s School of Management procurement result lists two Nvidia H200 141G PCIe data-center accelerator cards. It names Shaanxi Bosuan Network Technology as supplier and gives a price of 437,350 yuan per card, or 874,700 yuan in total. The result does not say whether the cards were delivered or where they came from.
The U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) entry for the university covers all items subject to the Export Administration Regulations and sets a “presumption of denial” for license reviews. BIS says the department added the university to the list in 2001.
A rule effective Jan. 15, 2026, permits case-by-case review of some H200 and equivalent chip exports to China if specified conditions are met, including U.S. supply and security certifications, third-party testing and safeguards against remote access by prohibited parties. The route requires certification that no party subject to section 744.11 is involved or receives remote access. Because the university’s Entity List entry cites section 744.11, transactions involving it are excluded from that route. The procurement result does not establish whether a U.S.-controlled export took place. Nvidia’s documentation describes its DGX H100/H200 systems as designed for AI training and inference.
Reuters reported that the university also entered five contracts in 2026 to rent computing capacity using H200 and other Nvidia processors. Two January contracts each provided seven months of access to a server containing eight H200 chips. They were priced at 441,700 yuan and 441,000 yuan, respectively, for AI model fine-tuning and reinforcement-learning training.
Reuters said documents showed similar activity at other Chinese universities and research organizations, with local companies supplying Nvidia processors or computing time. That account drew on 26 procurement and corporate records.
Reuters also reported that three Republican congressional committee chairmen requested a briefing with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang for Nov. 18. Its report did not say whether Huang accepted or whether the briefing was scheduled.
