Trump allows NVIDIA to sell H200 chip to China
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Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Ian King revisits one of Nvidia’s earlier-generation AI chips that has returned to the spotlight.
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The Department of Commerce will allow Nvidia to ship H200 chips to China, as originally reported by Semafor, to approved customers in the country. The U.S. will take a 25% cut of these sales, CNBC reported.
China is set to limit access to Nvidia’s (NVDA) advanced H200 chips despite President Donald Trump’s decision to allow the export of the GPUs to China.
President Trump announced Monday that he will allow California-based Nvidia to sell its advanced H200 computer chips to "approved customers" in China, a boost to the semiconductor giant whose chips are widely used for artificial intelligence.
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Exclusive: Nvidia considers increasing H200 chip output due to robust China demand, sources say
The move comes after President Donald Trump said the U.S. government would allow Nvidia to export H200 processors.