By Steve Kopack
Publication Date: 2025-12-08 22:22:00
President Donald Trump said Monday that he has informed Chinese President Xi Jinping that “the United States will allow NVIDIA to ship its H200 products to approved customers in China.”
Nvidia’s H200 is a generation behind its latest Blackwell chip, which is considered among the most advanced and high-powered AI chips available anywhere.
Trump said the Blackwell chip would not be part of the deal.
Still, the move could be worth billions of dollars for Nvidia, the world’s most valuable company. Nvidia says it has more than $500 billion worth of orders for its best artificial intelligence chips to fulfill this year and next — and that’s before any buyers in China are factored in.
Trump said he will also allow Intel, AMD “and other great American companies” to sell similar chips to customers in China. “The Department of Commerce is finalizing the details,” he said.
Monday’s announcement would end what was effectively a ban on sales of AI chips from U.S. companies to China.
Trump wrote on Truth Social that the U.S. government would take a 25% cut of sales of the approved chips, up from a previously announced 15%.
However, it remains to be seen whether China will allow imports of the chips. After the U.S. said it would allow an even older generation of Nvidia chip, known as the H20, to be sold in China, Xi’s government essentially said it did not want them.
In his social media post, Trump said: “President Xi responded positively!”
Nvidia said in a statement, “We applaud President…
