The Trump administration’s decision to allow Nvidia to sell its H200 artificial intelligence chips to Chinese companies marks one of the most consequential reversals in Washington’s tech-export policy in years. After months of negotiations between chip-industry leaders and national-security officials, the White House concluded that the economic upside — including a proposed revenue share with the US government — outweighed earlier concerns that such chips could aid China’s technological and military ambitions, the New York Times reported.

For Nvidia, the approval represents a major win. Jensen Huang, the company’s CEO, has lobbied intensely for permission to sell higher-end chips to China, arguing that cutting off Chinese buyers entirely would both hurt American semiconductor companies an

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