Trump says Nvidia can sell more powerful AI chips to China
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Trump announced White House approval for Nvidia to export H200 AI chips to China with conditions, including a 25% US sales cut, to balance security and economic interests.
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Nvidia has received White House approval to start exporting its H200 AI GPU chips to "approved customers" in China and other countries, according to President Donald Trump. In a Truth Social post on Monday, Trump said the deal comes with "conditions that allow for continued strong national security," and that the US will take a 25 percent cut of the GPU sales - higher than the 15 percent cut that was demanded in August.
Nvidia's H200 chips are an upgrade to the scaled-down H20 chips that Nvidia is already permitted to sell in China, but are less powerful than its latest flagship Blackwell GPUs.
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