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China’s conditional H200 approval rewire Samsung-SK Hynix rivalry

China has reportedly been conditionally approving corporate purchases of Nvidia’s H200, reshaping HBM supply-demand dynamics. According to Seoul Economic Daily and G-enews, Bloomberg reported that Chinese authorities granted conditional approval for major Chinese companies such as Alibaba, Tencent Holdings, and ByteDance to purchase Nvidia’s H200. Due to the H200’s heavy HBM requirements, this development will also impact Samsung and SK Hynix.