wrote.<\/a> \u201cIt would undermine global digital infrastructure and fracture trust in U.S. technology.\u201d Nvidia stressed the crucial role its chips already play in trusted systems worldwide, from medical scanners to air-traffic control.<\/p>\n The Deal That Sparked the Fire <\/p>\n
This new firestorm in Beijing was ignited by the unconventional deal Nvidia just struck with Washington. To return to China after months of a federal ban, the company agreed to pay the Trump administration 15% of the revenue generated by its H2O chip sales there.<\/p>\n
The deal was personally negotiated, and in a press conference on Monday, President Donald Trump offered a stunningly blunt assessment of the very technology he had just approved for export. He claimed he had initially asked for a 20% cut but that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang negotiated it down. Trump then dismissed the H2O chips as \u201cobsolete\u201d and \u201can old chip that China already has.\u201d<\/p>\n
The president\u2019s comments perfectly capture the absurd tightrope Nvidia is now forced to walk. To satisfy Washington, the company had to create a chip weak enough to be deemed \u201cobsolete.\u201d But to satisfy Beijing, it must sell a chip that is powerful enough to be worth buying and trustworthy enough not to be seen as a tool for American espionage.<\/p>\n
Now, both sides are publicly questioning the product. The U.S. President is calling it old news, while Chinese state media is calling it a security risk. For Nvidia, the stakes are astronomical, and navigating the treacherous waters between these two global superpowers may prove to be the toughest deal of all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nvidia is on the defensive. Just as the AI giant secured a fragile, high-stakes deal to resume selling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,2140,2277,6494,61],"class_list":["post-62598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chatgpt","tag-geopolitics","tag-nvidia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}