Trump OKs Nvidia AI chips for China

Approval for H200 months in making

- TRIPP MICKLE ANA SWANSON

The Trump administration wants to encourage Chinese companies to use Nvidia's H200 chip while limiting sales of the company's newest chips, known as Blackwell.

(NYT)

President Donald Trump said Monday that his administration had granted Nvidia permission to begin selling its second-most-powerful chip to China, a big step up from what the artificial intelligence chipmaker had been allowed to offer to Beijing.

The administration had spent months wrestling with whether it was comfortable relaxing its policy on sales of a critical AI technology that has the potential to help China militarily and economically.

In a social media post, Trump said the Commerce Department was finishing the details and would make similar opportunities available to other chipmakers such as Advanced Micro Devices and Intel. The president said a portion of the chip revenue would go to the US government, a proposition that experts say could violate US law.

The decision is a major win for Jensen Huang, Nvidia's CEO, who spent months lobbying the White House to ease its export restrictions.