Maybe CEO Jensen Huang's million-dollar meal at Mar-a-Lago has paid off in the form of permission to sell the H20 and a new RTX Pro GPU

Nvidia has announced the US government will allow it to resume sales of its GPUs to Chinese customers.

The US prohibits exports of advanced semiconductors to China, on grounds that the Middle Kingdom uses them to advance its military capabilities and conduct surveillance operations.

Nvidia tried to evade those bans by creating the H20 GPU, an underpowered accelerator that US authorities were happy to see sold into China. Washington later reversed course and stopped issuing export permits for the H20. That decision cost Nvidia around $10 billion in sales.

After the H20 ban, CEO Jensen Huang labelled US trade policy “precisely wrong” and “a failure” because he feels the world can benefit from innovations developed in China, and that the USA benefits if the world’s top AI researchers rely on tech from Nvidia – an American company.

Huang has made the same points repeatedly for months and on Monday Nvidia ...