NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang seems to have hit the Trump administration to avoid export restrictions on the company’s H20 AI chip.
According to the NPR, the H20, the AI chip produced by the most advanced NVIDIA that can be exported from the United States to China, proposed dinner at Mar-A-Lago Resort in Trump last week, thanks to its promise to invest in a new AI data center in the United States.
NVIDIA refused to comment.
Many people in the semiconductor industry were afraid of the H20, which was modified to be lower than other NVIDIA chips, and was reported to be one of the Chips -based DeepSeek used to train the R1 Open AI model. Launched in January, R1 created a headline for powerful performance compared to the model of the US -based AI laboratory, including Openai.
Senators on both sides of the aisle demanded a limit to the H20. According to the NPR, even the Trump administration is preparing for H20 export control before the course reversal.
It is not surprising that Trump agrees to proclaim potential chip restrictions in return for the promise of investing in the US AI infrastructure, but NVIDIA continues to export the H20 to China’s goal to secure US dominance in AI.
The Trump administration’s decision to maintain a series of AI chip export rules introduced by President Joe Viden in January is more embarrassing. This rule stratifies chip export restrictions on almost all countries other than the United States, including the US allies.
NVIDIA called these guidelines “unprecedented and wrong India,” and said that there is a possibility of suppressing global innovation.
Many AI companies other than NVIDIA have favored the administration in accordance with Trump’s “US priority” approach to AI. Openai teamed up with Softbank and Oracle, using a $ 500 billion US data center initiative called Stargate Project in January. Microsoft pledges $ 80 billion to build an AI data center in the 2025 fiscal year, and 50%of the United States caught the United States.
Trump has a strong specific partner to get his desired results. He said Taiwan’s semiconductor company TSMC should pay up to 100%if the company does not build a new chip factory in the United States.
