China, Trump and AI
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The rollout is expected to include pushing for speedier permitting for data center buildouts and promoting US tech exports.
The US has given chipmakers like Nvidia and AMD the opportunity to sell their chips to China again. Derrick Irwin, portfolio manager at Allspring Global Investments, says the US may have retain some dominance,
But Nvidia now says that Trump, having met personally with Huang, is promising to issue those licenses, which would enable Chinese AI companies to greatly accelerate model development and infrastructure buildout. And even though the H100 chips are officially still supposed to be off-limits, China may be able to get its hands on them as well.
NVIDIA's H20 AI GPUs are once again allowed to be sold in China following a reversal of restrictions by the Trump administration, and NVIDIA's CEO claims it wasn't he who changed the US President's mind.
President Trump championed more than $100 billion in new private-sector investments in artificial intelligence and energy infrastructure Tuesday — saying AI will lead Pennsylvania back to being an industrial powerhouse to compete with China.