President of the United States Donald Trump (79) announced on Monday that Nvidia's technology company could export stronger AI chips to China. This applies only to the H200 systems of the erstwhile generation of Hopper by Nvidia, stressed Trump on his actual Social online platform.
According to Trump, customers from China and another countries who have previously approved the acquisition of the product will be able to acquisition it – under conditions guaranteeing continued strong national security, stated the president on his community portal fact Social. The US Department of Commerce is presently working on the final details. The procedure would besides apply to another technology companies specified as AMD and Intel.
"25 percent goes to the United States"
Trump added that he informed the president of China Xi Jinpinga (72) Xi “answered positively”. Part of the agreement with Nvidia besides seems to be the renewal of government financial participation: “25 percent will go to the United States”, Trump said.
Initially, Nvidia could only sale smaller integrated circuits in China called H2O. In spring, the Trump administration banned even this. Later, the ban was lifted – with the exception that 25% of sales gross goes to the U.S. government. However, then the Chinese government was no longer curious in importantly reduced performance of H2O circuits and ordered companies not to buy them.
The aim of the restrictions that the United States introduced a fewer years ago is to slow down China's advancement in developing artificial intelligence, which can besides be utilized for military purposes.
AI H200 can strengthen the Chinese army
According to informants, Trump's decision on the H200 is seen as a compromise. Trump and Xi agreed to suspend the commercial and technological dispute in November. The current decision is simply a compromise between providing the latest Nvidia agreements and a complete export ban. Officials believe that specified a ban would strengthen Huawei's efforts to sale its own AIs in China.
Critics, however, fear that selling more advanced AI chips could strengthen Beijing's army. These concerns originally led to export restrictions imposed by the administration of the erstwhile president Joe Bidena (83).
According to the Think Tank Institute for advancement report, the H200 strategy is almost six times more efficient than erstwhile export models. The study besides concluded that the sale of this strategy would let Chinese labs of artificial intelligence to build supercomputers with performance comparable to the best American AI supercomputers, although at higher costs.
According to Trump, however, there will be no consent to export the latest Nvidia model, Blackwell, or another system, Rubin.
Meanwhile, Nvidia's president, Jensen Huang, who maintained a good relation with Trump, warned that China's advancement in developing artificial intelligence would not be hampered. He argued that this country would make its own advanced technology, which would later compete on the global marketplace with the US offer, including Nvidia. His conclusion: Nvidia must be able to sale circuit boards to China so that the artificial intelligence manufacture remains dominated by American technology
