China, NVIDIA and Trump
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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.
Donald Trump’s decision to allow Nvidia Corp. to sell advanced chips to China marks more than just a shift in US tech policy. It also raises questions about how far he’ll go to steady ties with Xi Jinping.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang appeared to have scored big on Monday when the White House approved sales of his company’s H200 chips to China. But China may prefer Chinese-made chips—or smuggled ones.
President Trump is granting China access to more of Nvidia's advanced AI chips, he announced this week, a partial win for Nvidia which has lobbied against U.S. export restrictions first put in place in late 2022.