US approves sale of Nvidia’s superior H200 chips to China | EUROtoday

The US authorities has given chip big Nvidia the inexperienced mild to promote its superior synthetic intelligence (AI) processors in China, the Department of Commerce mentioned on Tuesday.

The H200, Nvidia’s second-most-advanced semiconductor, had been restricted by Washington over considerations that it will give China’s know-how business and army an edge over the US.

The Commerce Department mentioned the chips might be shipped to China granted that there’s ample provide of the processors within the US.

President Donald Trump mentioned final month that he would enable the chip gross sales to “approved customers” in China and accumulate a 25% charge.

The BBC has contacted Nvidia for remark.

The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security mentioned its revised export coverage applies to Nvidia’s H200 chips, in addition to much less superior processors.

The H200 chip is a technology behind Nvidia’s Blackwell processor, which is taken into account to be the world’s most superior AI semiconductor and stays blocked from sale in China.

Nvidia has been caught in a geopolitical tug-of-war between the US and China – two sides of a world AI race.

Trump reversed the chip-selling restriction final July, however demanded that Nvidia pay a minimize of its earnings from China to the US authorities.

Beijing then reportedly ordered its tech corporations to boycott Nvidia’s China-bound chips and prioritise semiconductors made domestically. That transfer was designed to bolster China’s tech business, although consultants have constantly mentioned that the nation’s chips nonetheless lag behind the US.

Throughout 2025, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang frequently lobbied Washington to permit the sale of the agency’s high-powered chips to China, arguing that world market extra is crucial for America’s competitiveness.

Some officers within the US, nonetheless, have expressed considerations that the chips would profit Beijing’s army and harm America’s progress in AI growth.