NVIDIA H200 AI Chip Exports To China Finally Approved But With New Terms

In a post on Truth Social, U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed the administration has finally given NVIDIA approval to begin shipping Hopper H200 AI chips to China, though at a higher royalty rate that previously agreed to. Instead of forking over 15% of AI chip sale revenue to the U.S. government, NVIDIA will pay a 25% rate to "support American jobs, strengthen U.S. manufacturing, and benefit American taxpayers."

Trump also confirmed that silicon based on NVIDIA's latest generation Blackwell architecture are not part of the deal and still banned from being exported to China.

This has been an ongoing saga with no shortage of twists and turns. It started in earnest back in August when the Trump administration reportedly struck a deal to green light exports of NVIDIA's data center chips based on Hopper and AMD's Instinct MI308 accelerators to China, with both American ...