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US government approves Nvidia H200 chip exports to China
Trump administration on Tuesday gave the green light to China-bound sales of Nvidia’s second most powerful AI chips
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Xinmei Shenin in Washington
The US has officially green-lighted Nvidia to sell its H200 artificial intelligence chips in China, as the Trump administration seeks to strike a balance between curtailing China’s AI progress and maintaining American AI firms’ global market share.
The H200, US chip giant Nvidia’s second-most-advanced AI processor, can be shipped to China under conditions that include that its China shipments account for no more than half of the amount sold domestically, according to the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS).
The new policy is scheduled to be published and take effect on Thursday.
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The H200 was initially subject to export restrictions to China in January 2025, in the final days of the Biden Administration, as part of the AI Diffusion Rule, which aimed to limit other countries’ access to advanced American technology.
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Over the past year, the Trump administration has sought to rescind the rule and ease certain curbs, efforts that some US officials criticised.
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In July, Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang said the US government had promised to grant the company licences to resume exporting the H20 chip, a product specifically designed for the Chinese market that is less powerful than its standard AI graphics processing units (GPUs).
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