Nvidia, China and Trump
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the Trump administration is letting it sell its advanced H20 computer chips to China — a reversal in policy.
Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang has been active on the government relations and lobbying front, and now he’s got something big to show for his efforts: the Trump Administration has agreed to lift a ban on selling Nvidia H20 AI chips to China.
Days after a White House meeting with President Donald Trump, Jensen Huang was being hailed by an audience on a stage in Beijing.
The federal government’s past restrictions on AI chip sales inside China were easily the biggest threat to American preeminence in the AI space.
Jim Cramer believes that Nvidia Corp. (NASDAQ:NVDA) is poised to get a significant boost with the U.S. government assuring licenses for the sale of its H20 chips or general processing units to China,
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The tech giants said they can resume selling high-end semiconductors to China, in what appears to be a major about-face for the Trump administration.
Donald Trump’s decision to let Nvidia sell powerful artificial intelligence (AI) microchips to China has sparked fears that the technology could be used to boost Beijing’s military. Charles Parton, from the think tank Rusi, said there would “inevitably” be sales of semiconductors “which have the possibility of military use”.