The United States has formally green-lit Nvidia’s H200 chip sales to China, despite concerns the communist country could use the technology to supercharge its military.
The move is expected to kickstart the company’s sales of its second-most-powerful artificial intelligence chips. The sales are being permitted subject to the condition that China cannot receive more than half the total quantity of chips sold to U.S. consumers. In addition, the chips must first be reviewed by a third-party lab to confirm their technical artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities before being exported.
President Donald Trump announced Dec. 8 on Truth Social he would allow the chip sales in exchange for a 25 percent fee to go to the U.S. government, which drew criticism from lawmakers in Washington who argued the sales undercut national security….
US Gives Go-Ahead for Nvidia’s H200 Chip Sales to China
