Allowing Nvidia to sell its B30A chip to China would undermine the Trump administration’s export control strategy and broader technology policy goals, researchers with the Institute for Progress think tank said this week.
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The U.S. government’s failure to cripple Huawei through export controls shows that it needs a different strategy to counter foreign threats to American technology competitiveness, the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation said in a new report last week. Although the U.S. should still use export controls in certain situations, they should always be applied with allies and used sparingly so as not to use up America’s “technology capital,” the think tank said.
The U.S. should ensure its export controls are not so restrictive that they harm the ability of American computing chip manufacturers to compete internationally, Rep. Rich McCormick, R-Ga., said this week.
President Donald Trump said the U.S. doesn't plan to allow exports of Nvidia's Blackwell advanced AI chip to China.
Microsoft has secured export licenses from the Commerce Department to ship advanced Nvidia chips to its data centers in the United Arab Emirates, President Brad Smith said Nov. 3 in a blog post on the company's website.
President Donald Trump told reporters after his trade talks with China that the U.S. didn't discuss allowing exports of Nvidia's new Blackwell advanced AI chip to China. "We're not talking about the Blackwell," he said Oct. 30 on Air Force One.
Twelve Senate Democrats urged President Donald Trump Oct. 29 not to ease U.S. restrictions on inbound or outbound investment as part of a potential trade deal with China this week.
Nvidia’s Blackwell AI processors, the company’s latest advanced AI chip, will be part of trade negotiations in talks with China this week, President Donald Trump told reporters Oct. 28.
Chinese companies are likely to end up buying Nvidia chips despite reports that Beijing has ordered its top firms to cease those purchases, said Jake Sullivan, former national security adviser to President Joe Biden.