美批准 Nvidia H200 对华出口 涉事中企办公室竟为空壳
《纽约时报》调查发现，获美方批准采购 Nvidia H200 AI 芯片的中国企业中，New Matrix 的注册地址实为空置办公室，物业与楼宇名录均无该公司记录，其股东还与 2024 年起被美国列入黑名单的私募机构存在关联。报道称这并非孤例，而是出口管制审批环节存在系统性尽职调查缺位的迹象，美国商务部与 Nvidia 均被指审查不力。
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Concerns are being raised that neither the Commerce Department nor Nvidia are doing their due diligence when it comes to vetting Chinese firms cleared to handle the company’s H200 AI chips. According to The New York Times, New Matrix is on the list of approved firms, yet its offices are empty, “a hollow gray shell with wires dangling from the ceiling where lights should be.” In fact, the paper could find little evidence that the company exists in any meaningful way:
Only scant information can be found online about New Matrix, which was created 17 months ago. At the building that New Matrix lists as its address, a company directory does not include the firm. At the nearby property management agency for the industrial park, a receptionist and a manager both said they had no record of the company.
What little information can be found about New Matrix is concerning. Its owners have ties to a Chinese private equity firm that has been blacklisted by the US government since 2024. And according to the Times, this is not a rare lapse in oversight, but a troubling pattern of companies connected to entities with national-security-related trade restrictions being approved to purchase Nvidia chips.
Nvidia had been restricted from selling chips to China during the Biden presidency. But the Trump administration relaxed those limits after Nvidia agreed to give the government a 15-percent cut of all sales. The company’s CEO, Jensen Huang, also launched an intense lobbying campaign and was apparently targeted by China’s Ministry of State Security in a spying plot.