WASHINGTON, July 14 (Reuters) - A top U.S. official told

Congress on Tuesday that "very few" Nvidia H200 chips

to date have been shipped to China or Hong Kong.

In May, Reuters reported the Commerce Department had cleared

around 10 Chinese firms to buy Nvidia's ( NVDA ) second-most powerful AI

chip, the H200, but no deliveries had been made. Jeffrey

Kessler, under secretary of commerce for industry and security,

told a U.S. House committee that H200 chip shipments have begun

but it was "very few."