By Karen Freifeld, David Shepardson and Alexandra Alper<\/p>\n
WASHINGTON, Jan 13 (Reuters) – The Trump administration on Tuesday gave a formal green light to China-bound sales \u200bof Nvidia<\/a>‘s second most powerful AI chips, putting in place a rule \u200cthat will likely kickstart shipments of the H200 despite deep concerns among China hawks in Washington.<\/p>\n According to the \u200cregulations, the chips will be reviewed by a third-party testing lab to confirm their technical AI capabilities before they can be shipped to China, which cannot receive more than 50% of the total amount of chips sold to American customers.<\/p>\n Nvidia will need to \u2060certify there are enough H200s \u200cin the U.S., while Chinese customers must demonstrate “sufficient security procedures” and cannot use the chips for military purposes.<\/p>\n Nvidia and the Chinese \u200dEmbassy in Washington did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n U.S. President Donald Trump announced last month that he would allow the chip sales in exchange for a 25% fee for \u200bthe U.S. government. The decision drew fire from China hawks across the U.S. \u200cpolitical spectrum over concerns the chips would supercharge Beijing’s military and erode the U.S. advantage in artificial intelligence<\/a>.<\/p>\n Such concerns had prompted the Biden administration to bar sales of advanced AI chips to China. But the Trump administration, led by White House AI czar David Sacks, argues that shipping advanced AI chips to China discourages Chinese competitors – \u2060such as heavily sanctioned Huawei – from redoubling efforts \u200bto catch up with Nvidia’s and AMD’s most \u200badvanced chip designs.<\/p>\n When Trump announced the sales last month, he said they would be exported to China “under conditions that allow for continued strong \u200dNational Security.” But questions \u2060have arisen around whether the administration would in practice impose any limits on the chip shipments, or even if Beijing would allow their sales domestically.<\/p>\n Reuters \u2060reported last month that the U.S. had launched a review that could result in the first \u200cshipments of the chips to China.<\/p>\n (Reporting by David Shepardson and Bhargav Acharya; \u200cediting by Deepa Babington and Lincoln Feast)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Karen Freifeld, David Shepardson and Alexandra Alper WASHINGTON, Jan 13 (Reuters) – The Trump administration on Tuesday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[114,1657,54,85,46,4136],"class_list":["post-236408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-china","tag-donald-trump","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-nvidia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}