PLA-Linked Northwestern Polytechnical Bought Two Nvidia H200 Chips Through Chinese Reseller for $123K

Procurement records show Northwestern Polytechnical University, a 'Seven Sons of National Defense' school on the US Entity List since 2001, bought two Nvidia H200 chips for 874,700 yuan (about $123,000) on Oct 21 via Chinese reseller Shaanxi Bosuan Network Technology, with no Nvidia involvement or export license. The same institution signed five contracts this year renting servers that each contain eight H200 chips; Reuters flagged 26 similar records across Chinese military-linked buyers in total.