Overview
- Reuters and Bloomberg reported that the White House and Commerce Department are reviewing whether to permit Nvidia to sell H200 datacenter chips to China, with no official decision disclosed.
- Nvidia shares rose about 2.5% on investor optimism that access to China’s AI market could improve, even as current restrictions still block sales of its most advanced GPUs.
- Nvidia said the regulatory environment prevents it from offering a competitive datacenter GPU in China, a gap it says benefits fast-growing foreign rivals.
- Alibaba’s Qwen chatbot logged more than 10 million downloads in its first week, lifting Alibaba shares in premarket trading and signaling strong consumer appetite for AI services in China.
- Chip stocks remain under pressure for November with the sector down roughly 11%, while major cloud customers of Nvidia are projected to lift combined capital spending by 34% to about $440 billion over the next year.