Nvidia Is Advertising Partnerships With Firms Partly Owned By The Chinese Communist Party

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🗓️ 26 November 2025

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The chipmaker’s website touts its work with companies like ZTE, which has been effectively banned from selling its products in the U.S. for years over national security concerns.

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0:00.0	Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Wednesday, November 26th. Today on Forbes, NVIDIA is advertising partnerships with firms partly owned by the Chinese Communist Party. Invidia, the American chipmaking giant that's faced restrictions over the sale of its advanced AI chips to China over fears they could
0:21.8	be used against the U.S., has been advertising compute partnerships on its website, with companies
0:28.0	closely linked to the Chinese government. Forbes has learned.
0:32.4	One of those companies is ZTE, a telecom company that is partly owned by the Chinese government and has for
0:39.0	years been subject to U.S. restrictions because of its ties to the Chinese military. In 2017,
0:45.9	ZTE pled guilty to violating U.S. sanctions on Iran and misleading regulators about it.
0:51.9	In 2020, the FCC designated ZTE as a threat to U.S. national security,
0:57.5	claiming the company, along with Huawei, quote, posed a unique threat to the security and integrity
1:03.3	of the nation's communications networks and communications supply chain. In 2021, the company was
1:10.0	added to the commission's so-called covered list, and in 2022,
1:14.0	the FCC voted to ban sales of new ZTE products in the U.S. The company is currently under
1:19.7	FCC investigation for potential evasion of that ban. Invita's website lists 129 Chinese partners, split into three tiers, registered, preferred,
1:31.3	and elite.
1:32.3	ZTE is listed as elite.
1:35.3	The website says, quote,
1:36.3	Elite partners represent the deepest level of partnership with NVIDIA and demonstrate
1:41.3	the highest level of commitment to the partnership.
1:50.0	Also listed among the company's so-called elite partners are Beijing Advanced Digital Technology, AdTech Limited, a data storage and financial products firm that serves sanctioned firms,
1:55.5	including InSper and Huawei, and Sino InfoCo Limited, which is a project of the China Credit Reference Center,
2:02.7	a state-owned entity that tracks Chinese citizens' financial and employment history.
2:07.9	The NVIDIA website says the partnerships are about, quote, networking, and, quote, compute.
2:14.4	Current U.S. laws and regulations do not prevent NVIDIA from partnering with ZTE, AdTech,
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