Trump Open to Nvidia Selling Scaled-Back Blackwell AI Chip to China

US President Donald Trump signaled on Aug 11 that he would be open to allowing Nvidia to sell a scaled-back version of its most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) chip to China.

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Mr. Trump said he would consider a deal that would allow Nvidia to ship its Blackwell chips to China if the company could design it to be less advanced.

"It's possible I'd make a deal" on a "somewhat enhanced - in a negative way - Blackwell" processor, he said in a briefing with reporters.

"In other words, take 30 percent to 50 percent off of it."

Nvidia declined to comment on the President's remarks.

Mr. Trump made his comment on Nvidia's Blackwell chip while confirming that he had hammered out a separate, unusual deal with Nvidia that will allow the company to sell its less-advanced H20 AI chip to China if it pays 15 percent of revenue tied to those shipments to the US government.