Trump will decide whether Nvidia can sell its most advanced AI chips to China, according to Lutnick

The U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, said this Monday that the decision to authorize the sale to China of Nvidia’s H200 artificial intelligence (AI) chips “is on Donald Trump’s table” and that it will be the president who decides “whether or not it is executed.” “It’s on Donald Trump’s table. Nvidia really wants to sell these chips and has good reasons for it, but he, advised by many experts, will be the one to decide if we go ahead with the sale of these chips,” Lutnick stated in statements to Bloomberg after participating in the meeting of EU trade ministers held this Monday in Brussels. “That is the question, whether you want to sell your best chips to China so they can use your technology or you don’t sell them your chips and hold on to compete in the AI race for yourself,” he added.

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Lutnick pointed out that “there are a lot of people who believe that the possibility of selling these Nvidia H200 chips to China is something to consider deeply”, and that “Trump from the Oval Office will take it into consideration”. In this regard, the US Secretary of Commerce assured that they will execute “the decision he makes”. In July, a U.S. House of Representatives committee warned about the risks associated with selling chips to China. In a letter to the Secretary of Commerce, the committee chairman noted that the H20 — although less powerful than the H100 or H200 — would far surpass local manufacturing capacity in China and could boost the development of artificial intelligence for strategic purposes. For his part, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stated that he “expects” to be able to sell Blackwell family chips in China in the future, although there are no concrete plans approved to do so at the moment. In addition to participating in the EU Trade Council, Lutnick and Greer met today with the European Commission’s Executive Vice President Henna Virkkunen. They addressed the application of the joint declaration in the digital and technological field, including the common goal of mobilizing 40 billion U.S. dollars in purchases of advanced artificial intelligence chips during the next year, community sources reported.