Nvidia H200 assembler New Matrix lists an empty Beijing address

A Chinese firm approved by the Trump administration to build servers around Nvidia's advanced chips appears to operate from a vacant shell The Trump administration approved a Chinese company called New Matrix earlier this year to assemble Nvidia’s advanced H200 chips into AI computers. According to The New York Times, the address the company lists is an empty building. It sits in a recently built industrial park on Beijing’s northwest edge. The Times describes a hollow gray structure with wires hanging from the ceiling where light fixtures should be. What the approval covers and why it matters New Matrix’s role is assembly. It was cleared to take Nvidia’s H200 processors and build them into the computer systems used to train and run artificial intelligence models. The H200 became legally available to Chinese buyers after President Trump allowed its sale to China late last year. The policy shift came on December 8, 2025. Under its terms, H200 exports could proceed with a 25% cut of the revenue going to the US. The process then became more formal. Beginning in mid-January 2026, the US Commerce Department moved to case-by-case reviews of Nvidia’s chip exports. Each license, in theory,...