Northwestern Polytechnical University’s Chang’an campus gate in Xi’an, China, September 2025. Nishino Asuka / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0; cropped. File photo.
Northwestern Polytechnical University, a Chinese institution with close military ties and a place on the U.S. export blacklist, bought two Nvidia H200 artificial-intelligence chips through a domestic supplier, according to procurement records.
An October 21 notice from the university’s management school lists two NVIDIA H200 141G PCIe accelerator cards at 437,350 yuan each, for a total of 874,700 yuan, or about $123,000. The purchase took place in October, not on the date of this report.
The notice identifies Shaanxi Bosuan Network Technology as the supplier. It does not describe a direct sale by Nvidia, establish that Nvidia knew of the transaction, or show how the chips reached the vendor.
The Xi’an-based university conducts research involving military aircraft, missiles and satellites. The U.S. Commerce Department placed it on the Entity List in 2001 and tightened its restrictions in 2019. Licenses for controlled U.S. technology exports to the university generally face a policy of denial.
Separate procurement records also describe five contracts this year for rented computing capacity using Nvidia processors. In one January 28 award notice, the university’s cybersecurity school specified access to an eight-GPU H200 server for AI-model fine-tuning and reinforcement-learning training. The contract was worth 441,000 yuan and covered seven months.
The records provide little information about the processors’ origin or where the rented servers operated. They do not establish an export-law violation.
U.S. policy allowing some H200 exports to China on a case-by-case basis did not remove the separate restrictions on Entity List institutions. The procurement records draw attention to the distinction between buying physical chips and renting access to computing capacity through third-party suppliers.
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