Trump opens door for NVIDIA in China
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Nvidia has been trying all year to assuage the concerns of national-security hawks like Secretary of State Marco Rubio to revive its China business. Other Nvidia chips have been considered for sale to China, one of which included a 15% sales cut agreement that ultimately never took effect.
According to Trump, the US will get a 25% cut of sales to "support American Jobs, strengthen U.S. Manufacturing, and benefit American Taxpayers," according to Trump, who notes that Nvidia's Blackwell and Rubin chips are not part of the deal.
China has put domestic artificial intelligence chips on an official procurement list for the first time, bolstering the nation’s tech sector ahead of US President Donald Trump’s move to allow Nvidia exports to the country.
US authorities bust an AI chip 'trafficking network' that was attempting to smuggle $160 million of NVIDIA AI chips into China by changing the destination.
The department alleges the men operated a smuggling network that spanned the Houston business, run by Alan Hao Hsu, and several warehouses across the US.
Three CFR experts unpack President Donald Trump’s decision to allow the sale of powerful Nvidia AI chips to China.
The U.S. has been attempting to contain China’s business and technological advances in the race for artificial intelligence.
The United States will allow Nvidia's H200 processors, its second-best artificial intelligence chips, to be exported to China and collect a 25% fee on such sales, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday.
The announcement ended what has effectively been a ban on AI chip sales to the world's second-largest economy and America's strategic adversary.
The US may ease export curbs on Nvidia’s H200 chip to China, as investors question its AI dominance and Chinese rivals race to build their own GPUs.