New York Times ChineseJun 2, 2026, 11:37 UTC+8

Report Says China’s Military Has Sought Nvidia Chips for Years

报告称中国军方多年来一直寻求获得英伟达芯片

Wirescreen reviewed 3,800 procurement records and found more than 500 cases where Chinese military units sought Nvidia chips by name or specification. The records cover 2019 to 2025 and include A100, A800, H100, and H800, but they do not confirm final delivery.

Why it matters: HKR-H/K/R all pass: the NYT/Wirescreen record set adds hard numbers on military demand for NVIDIA chips. No confirmed delivery keeps it below a new policy action or company disclosure.

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Nvidia’s China story has a hole in it: “not dependent” is too narrow a defense when PLA units keep asking for A100, A800, H100, and H800 parts by name or spec. Wirescreen reviewed 3,800 procurement records and found 500-plus military-linked requests from 2019 to 2025. One January 2024 Beijing cyber unit sought four A100 servers that had to support hashcat, a password-cracking tool.

Nvidia’s pushback is that frontier AI systems need networks of 100,000 chips or more, and these orders fall far below that. That works for frontier model training. It does not clear smaller workloads like password attacks, vulnerability research, simulation, or evaluation. The uglier detail is procurement adaptation: shell buyers and remote access through commercial data centers. That turns “we didn’t sell to the military” into a compliance phrasing contest.

Source: New York Times Chinese · cn.nytimes.com
Published: Jun 2, 2026, 11:37 UTC+8 · Jun 2, 2026