Several Democratic senators on Dec. 9 opposed President Donald Trump’s approval of Nvidia H200 AI chips for Chinese customers in a joint statement, calling it a “national security failure.”
“The H200s are vastly more capable than anything China can make and gifting them to Beijing would squander America’s primary advantage in the AI race,” the senators stated, calling on Trump to reverse the policy.
Nvidia previously sold China reduced-capability versions of its Hopper-line AI chips, the H800 and H20 chips.
Trump announced via Truth Social on Dec. 8 that the United States would allow sales of the H200 chip to “approved customers” in China for the first time, blasting policies that required American companies to create “degraded” versions of their AI chips to satisfy U.S. export controls….
Senators Oppose Trump’s Greenlight of Nvidia H200 Chips to China
