Trump Says US Won't Let Nvidia Export 'Most Advanced' Chips to China
President Donald Trump said the U.S. doesn't plan to allow exports of Nvidia's Blackwell advanced AI chip to China.
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Trump, speaking to reporters about the chip on Nov. 2, said the U.S. isn’t planning to “give that chip to other people.”
“The new Blackwell that just came out, it's 10 years ahead of every other chip,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One. “No, we don't give that chip to other people.”
He also told CBS's "60 Minutes," in a segment that aired Nov. 2, that he won't allow Nvidia to sell its most advanced chips to China.
"We will let [China] deal with Nvidia but not in terms of the most advanced," he said, according to a transcript of the interview posted by CBS. "The most advanced, we will not let anybody have them other than the United States."
Trump’s comments came days after he told reporters that the U.S. and China, during trade talks in South Korea last week, planned to speak about possibly allowing Nvidia to export its Blackwell chip to China (see 2510290019). Trump backtracked after the talks, saying Oct. 30 that the two countries are “not talking about the Blackwell” (see 2510300026).
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Oct. 31 called the China market “large and vibrant” with “a lot of developers, and those developers create AI technology that's exported from China all over the world.”
He said he wants to be able to ship the Blackwell to China. “I hope so. I hope so. But that's a decision for President Trump to make,” he told reporters in South Korea, according to a video of his comments posted by Reuters.
He added that China already has access to other AI chips and that Beijing has already ordered its companies not to buy Nvidia’s less advanced H20 AI chip (see 2510240038).
“And so whatever national security concerns have to take into consideration the fact that China has blocked H20,” Huang said. “And so in a lot of ways China is saying that, listen, we have plenty of AI technology ourselves. And so the national security concern from that perspective, I think, is really answered by the fact that China doesn't want H20."