Almost two months after President Trump gave the nod to the resumption of H200 AI chip sales to China, national security reviews by the State Department, Department of Energy and the Commerce Department in the U.S. have stalled the exports, according to a news article published by the Financial Times.
Meanwhile, prospective Chinese buyers are holding off on placing their orders for these chips as they await information on whether those firms will obtain the needed permits to import the chips and what specific conditions are likely to be attached to the purchases.
The FT report shows that the Commerce Department completed its review and approved the sales in January, but the State Department was demanding stricter restrictions geared at preventing China from using those imported AI chips in ways that could be detrimental to the national security interests of the U.S.
Jensen Huang, the tech company’s CEO, last week said he hoped China would approve Nvidia chip sales to the country and that Beijing would quickly provide a license to that effect.
Last month, Reuters reported that China had granted approval to the first consignment of Nvidia chips, marking a change from its previous position that instructed Chinese firms to refrain from importing those H200 chips. The government cited national security concerns and the need to allow domestic firms to advance their own chip development efforts.
If China approves Nvidia chip imports to resume in the country, it will be a win for the American tech company as its revenue projections had taken a hit from the geopolitical storm that had locked it out of one of its largest markets around the world. The H200 chips had specifically been developed for the Chinese market after U.S. authorities issued an export restriction that barred tech firms from selling advanced chips to China and other countries deemed to pose a national security threat to the United States.
Nvidia developed those H200 chips to meet the limitations of the specifications imposed on chips that could be exported. Banning the chips from being exported therefore threatened to cause massive losses to Nvidia and potentially result in writing off the investment that went into the creation of those chips.
Now that China is working to permit H200 imports, tech firms are likely to read that move as a tacit admission that China is still behind the U.S. in the production of advanced artificial intelligence chips, though it may just be a matter of time before the East Asian country catches up. Tech leaders like Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) will be working to stay ahead of their Chinese competitors and other rivals around the world.
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