Advanced Nvidia Ai Chip may be coming to China after all.
Commerce Department plans to allow Nvidia to ship H200 chips to China, According to SEMAFORwhich is called the source. This chip is more advanced than Nvidia’s H20 chip developed specifically for the Chinese market, but the company can only ship the 18-month-old H200S, SEMAFA said.
“We welcome Trump’s decision to allow the American chip industry to compete in support of paying jobs and companies that have been approved for America,” an Nvidia spokesperson told TechCrunch.
The news report comes a week after US converse secretary Howard Lutnick said the decision to export the H200 chip to China under President Donald TrumpSee rank-.
The decision to send these chips to China would conflict with congressional concerns about national security.
Pete Rickets, Republican Senator from Nebraska, and Chris Coons, Democratic Senator from Delaware, introduced a bill on December 4 that would block the export of advanced AI chips to China for more than two years.
The Safe and Secure Export (Safe) Act requires the Department of Commerce to deny export licenses in Advanced AI Chips to China for 30 months. It is unclear when legislators will vote on the proposed bill.
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While Congress has long been required to ship advanced AI chips to China — on both sides of the aisle — President Trump has either waffled on whether or not to allow such exports.
The Trump Administration Hit Chip companies like Nvidia with License requirements To send chips to China in April before the official block the rule of deployment biden administration which will have the export of AI chips organized in May. Over the summer, the US government signaled that companies would be able to start shipping chips to China as long as the government gets a 15% cut of all incomeas chips become tools in trade with China.
However, at that point, the market for chips developed in China was filtered, if not destroyed.
In September, the China Internet Regulator, China’s top ring administration, Prohibition of domestic companies From the purchase of Nvidia Chips, leaving the company in the country dependent on less developed domestic chips from Alibaba and Huawei.