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With Nvidia’s second-best AI chips headed for China, the US shifts priorities from security to trade

  • Written by Peter Draper, Professor, and Executive Director: Institute for International Trade, and Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Trade and Environment, University of Adelaide
With Nvidia’s second-best AI chips headed for China, the US shifts priorities from security to tradeJIM WATSON/Getty

This week, US President Donald Trump approved previously banned exports of Nvidia’s powerful H200 artificial intelligence (AI) chips to China.

In return, the US government will receive 25% of the sales revenue, in what has become a hallmark of this administration to take a sales cut of a private company’s revenues.

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