“NVIDIA’s U.S. Customers are already moving forward with their incredible, highly advanced Blackwell chips, and soon, Rubin, neither of which are part of this deal.” Allowing the shipments could signal a friendlier approach to China, after Trump and Xi brokered a truce in the two countries’ trade and tech war in Busan, South Korea in late October. Administration officials consider the move a compromise between sending Nvidia’s latest Blackwell chips to China, which Trump has declined to allow, and sending China no U.S. chips at all, which officials believe would bolster Huawei’s efforts to sell AI chips in China, the person familiar with the matter said. According to a report released on Sunday by the non-partisan think tank the Institute for Progress, the H200 would be almost six times as powerful as the H20, the most advanced AI semiconductor that can legally be exported to China, after the Trump administration reversed its short-lived ban on such sales this year.
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Published at: 2025-12-08 23:14:53
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