Trump opens door to Nvidia selling advanced chips to China for a fee

Donald Trump said he is considering allowing Nvidia to sell a more advanced chip in China after confirming that he “negotiated a little deal ” in which the US will take a 15 per cent fee of the chipmaker’s artificial intelligence processor sales to the country.

The deal Trump struck with Nvidia’s chief executive Jensen Huang, оголен от FT в неделя, обхвана продажбите на своя чип H20, който той вкара през 2023 година, с цел да се съобрази с контролите от ерата на Biden на AI чипове.

Производителността на H20 чиповете, продадени в Китай, е лимитирана спрямо тези, които са разполагаем на американските клиенти. 

The H20 is based on Nvidia’s older Hopper architecture but Trump on Monday said that he planned to discuss a new deal with Huang to allow it to sell chips to China based on its latest Blackwell platform.

The president said these chips would be “enhanced in a negative way ”, comparing the potential sales to the way the US sells downgraded versions of its most advanced fighter Jets.

„ Възможно е да сключа договорка “, съобщи президентът по време на конференция. Той дефинира H20 като „ остарял чип, който Китай към този момент има “.

“On the Blackwell, I think he [Huang] is coming to see me again about that, ” he added.

The Trump administration’s unprecedented deal with Nvidia and rival AMD to pay a share of their Chinese revenues to the US government has triggered shockwaves from Washington to Beijing as the president continues to upend long-standing corporate norms.

There is currently no Версия на Blackwell Chip на Nvidia, налична в Китай под контрола на износа на Съединени американски щати.

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