{"id":823,"date":"2025-12-10T17:32:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T09:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timeswin.com.hk\/?p=823"},"modified":"2025-12-10T17:40:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T09:40:43","slug":"u-s-eases-ai-chip-export-ban-to-china-with-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timeswin.com.hk\/?p=823","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Eases AI Chip Export Ban to China with Conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amid ongoing debate over the U.S. Senate&#8217;s SAFE Act, former President Donald Trump announced on December 8 via Truth Social that his administration has approved the export of Nvidia\u2019s H200 AI chips to China. This marks a notable shift in the longstanding U.S. restrictions on advanced semiconductor sales to China.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The decision followed a recent meeting between Trump and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. However, the approval comes with significant conditions: Nvidia\u2019s latest Blackwell and upcoming Rubin architectures remain excluded, and the company must pay the U.S. government 25% of its H200 sales revenue from China\u2014a model that may also apply to other chipmakers such as AMD and Intel.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the move could bring short-term relief to Nvidia and help ease AI computing shortages in China, it also underscores the persistent geopolitical friction around technology trade. Analysts see the step as a calibrated compromise between preserving U.S. technological edge and addressing commercial realities. For China, the episode reinforces the urgency of accelerating domestic chip development to ensure long-term technological self-reliance.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid ongoing debate over the U.S. Senate&#8217;s SAFE Act, former President Donald Trump announced on December 8 via Truth Social that his administration has approved the export of Nvidia\u2019s H200 AI chips to China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timeswin.com.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timeswin.com.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timeswin.com.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timeswin.com.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timeswin.com.hk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.timeswin.com.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":825,"href":"http:\/\/www.timeswin.com.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions\/825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timeswin.com.hk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timeswin.com.hk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timeswin.com.hk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timeswin.com.hk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}