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Northwestern Polytechnical University, which is on a US export blacklist, bought two Nvidia H200 chips this year and rented two servers carrying eight H200s each through Chinese suppliers, Reuters reported on Nov. 11. By that evening, the university’s online notices announcing the deals were no longer accessible.

The university’s School of Management in Xi’an said in an Oct. 21 notice that it had bought two H200 PCIe cards from Shaanxi Bosuan Network Technology Co. for 874,700 yuan. Reuters said it could not reach the company. An Internet Archive capture shows the notice was still online at 1:23 p.m. Beijing time on Nov. 11. By about 7 p.m., the link returned a “page not found” message, and the item no longer appeared in the school’s list of announcements.

Text of Northwestern Polytechnical University’s School of Management award notice dated Oct. 21, 2026, for the purchase of Nvidia H200 graphics cards
The School of Management’s Oct. 21, 2026, award notice for the purchase of Nvidia H200 graphics cards, as archived by the Internet Archive on Nov. 11.

In two notices dated Jan. 28, the School of Cybersecurity said it had rented an eight-chip H200 server from each of Shenzhen Huiliang Technology Co. and Shenzhen Chaozhi Ronghe Technology Co., for 441,700 yuan and 441,000 yuan, with service running through Aug. 31 and Sept. 16, respectively. The Internet Archive holds March 15 copies of the Huiliang and Chaozhi Ronghe notices. On the university’s own site, both were inaccessible on the evening of Nov. 11 and missing from the school’s notice list, while two notices from the same day for rented A100 and A800 computing power were still listed.

The university has been on the US Commerce Department’s Entity List since 2001. In January, Washington moved to review license applications for qualifying H200 exports to China case by case, but the change does not cover buyers on the Entity List. Exporting any item subject to the Export Administration Regulations to the university requires a license, and applications are reviewed under a presumption of denial.

Reuters said Northwestern Polytechnical University, Nvidia and the Bureau of Industry and Security did not respond to requests for comment.