U.S. President Donald Trump has granted the sale of more powerful Nvidia AI chips to China, allowing the company to export its previous-generation H200s, in a move welcomed by the company as "a thoughtful balance" amid recent tech tensions between the world's two largest economies.
The U.S. government will retain 25% of the revenue from those sales, Trump said on his platform Truth Social on Monday. The approval does not apply to Nvidia's latest Blackwell generation or its upcoming Rubin line, he said.
The decision appears to settle a U.S. debate about whether Nvidia and rivals should maintain their global lead in AI chips by selling to China or withholding the exports β although Beijing had earlier told companies not to use U.S.
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