2025-07-28
After previously saying that the US would block exports of key AI chips to China, Donald Trump's administration may have backtracked. The US will now temporarily block restriction on exports of chips and other technology to China, the Financial Times reported. The aim is to help Trump book a meeting with China President Xi Jinping later this year in order to strike a trade deal, according to people familiar with the matter.
Export controls are dictated by the US Commerce Department, which was reportedly told to avoid tough moves on China, a [...]
2025-07-24
Financial Times is reporting that $1 billion worth of NVIDIA AI chips were smuggled into China in the three months after the Trump administration tightened semiconductor export controls. Citing sales [...]
2025-07-15
NVIDIA will be able to start selling its H20 AI GPU to China again soon after gaining approval to do so from the US government, the company announced in a blog post. Earlier this year, the company was [...]
2025-02-01
TikTok may be back online, but the app’s future in the United States is still far from certain. President Donald Trump’s executive order delaying enforcement of the ban was only a temporary reprie [...]
2025-08-19
NVIDIA is working on a new AI chip meant for the Chinese market that's more powerful than the H20, according to Reuters. It will reportedly be based on the company's latest Blackwell archite [...]
2025-06-26
The rollout of Deepseek's R2 model has been pushed back, reportedly because US export restrictions have made Nvidia chips hard to come by in China.<br /> The article Deepseek's R2 is r [...]
2025-09-17
The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has reportedly banned the country's local tech companies from purchasing NVIDIA's newest AI chip made for the region. According to the Financial [...]
2025-01-13
The Biden administration has unveiled its “AI diffusion rule,” which aims to restrict the export of GPUs that are most coveted for AI applications. Although it does not mention the nation by name, [...]
2025-07-09
China's efforts to expand AI infrastructure in Xinjiang seem to rely on the expectation of acquiring smuggled Nvidia hardware.<br /> The article Bloomberg: China’s AI expansion in Xinjian [...]
2025-08-21
Chinese regulators reportedly dissuaded local companies from purchasing NVIDIA's H20 chips, because they found certain statements by US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick "insulting." Ac [...]