Plans to sell Nvidia’s H200 chips to Chinese customers are in line with national security policy and export controls, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said during a Dec. 11 press briefing
“The administration continues to maintain a strict export control regime and we are ensuring that Blackwell chip and other advanced technologies stay right here in America. And these H200 chips will only be sent to China after undergoing a security inspection here in the United States,” Leavitt said.
President Donald Trump had announced on Dec. 8 on Truth Social that he will approve sales of Nvidia’s H200 artificial intelligence (AI) chips to “approved customers” in China. He said he had spoke to Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping about the decision and that Xi “responded positively.”…