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Beijing approves H200 sales as Microsoft weighs suing over a cloud deal

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Nvidia won Beijing's approval to sell H200 chips to China while preparing a Groq version for the same market, and Microsoft weighed legal action against Amazon and OpenAI over a $50 billion cloud deal.

Reported metric: $50B

Reporting date: 2026-03-18 (not necessarily the event date)

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Beijing approves H200 sales as Microsoft weighs suing over a cloud deal
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Reporting date: 2026-03-18
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-03-18-h200s-approved-for-china
Claim: Nvidia won Beijing's approval to sell H200 chips to China while preparing a Groq version for the same market, and Microsoft weighed legal action against Amazon and OpenAI over a $50 billion cloud deal.
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- Welcome to March 18, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-march-18-2026
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