Confronted with Beijing’s muscular use of export controls on uncommon earth minerals, crucial for producing a raft of tech items, Trump this yr has threatened new restrictions on tech exports to China, however finally rolled them again generally.
The H200 chip, unveiled two years in the past, has extra high-bandwidth reminiscence than its predecessor the H100, permitting it to course of information extra rapidly.
It’s estimated to be twice as highly effective as Nvidia’s H20 chip, probably the most superior AI semiconductor that may legally be exported to China, after the Trump administration reversed its short-lived ban on such gross sales earlier this yr.
Earlier this week, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, whom Trump has described as a “nice man,” was among the many friends on the White Home throughout Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s go to.
The Commerce Division introduced this week it had authorized shipments of the equal of as much as 70,000 Nvidia Blackwell chips, Nvidia’s next-generation AI chip, to Saudi Arabia’s Humain and G42 of the United Arab Emirates.
