Why Trump wears Nafidia to sell H20 chips to China

Technology Industry He suffers from the sudden new President Trump’s deal with Nafidia. Earlier this week, Trump said it would allow the company to continue selling H20 chips to China for a 15 percent stake in revenue.

“The H20 is outdated. As you know, it’s one of these things, but still has a market,” Trump said at a press conference on Monday. “So we negotiated a small deal.”

Unusual and Participated legally The arrangement is an amazing reflection of the Trump administration, which has banned all H20 sales to China earlier this year. According to what was reported by the president, his opinion on this issue after meeting with CEO of Nvidia Jensen Huangfrom Argue Allowing Chinese companies to buy H20S is not a threat to US national security.

On the one hand, this is a simple story about the president who appears to be affected by strong executive pressure in the interest of his company. But under the surface, there is a more interesting and complicated epic about how we get here.

Nvidia H20 presented last year after the US government prevented the company from selling a more powerful slide, H800, to China. This step was part of an ambitious project organized by the Biden administration officials who believe that the United States needed to prevent China from developing advanced artificial intelligence first.

Over the past few months, I have been working closely with Graham Webster, a researcher at Stanford University, sought to understand how and why the Biden team decided that the United States needed to reduce access to semiconductor -semiconductors in China in the first place. Today, Wire is the publication of Graham Final account What actually happened behind the scenes, based on interviews with more than 10 former US officials and politicians, some spoke on the condition that their identity is not disclosed.

“I did this article because the official legal justification of controls, military and human rights, is clear that it was not the entire story,” Graham told me. “It is clear that Amnesty International was in this mix, and I wanted to understand the reason for some depth.”

Graham writes that many major officials of the Ministry of Trade and Trade in Biden “believe that Amnesty International is close to the turning point-or many of them-which can give the nation the main military and economic advantages. Some of them believe that there is an improved self-system or the so-called artificial general intelligence can be more than the technical horizon. The risks that China can reach first of insult.”

So the Biden team decided to take action. In the fall of 2022, they revealed broad export controls aimed at preventing China from reaching the most advanced chips required to train strong artificial intelligence systems, as well as the specialized equipment that Beijing needs to update the industry of its local chips.

This step was the beginning of a multi -year project “that would reshape the relations between the two largest powers in the world and change the course of what might be one of the most subordinate techniques in generations,” he wrote Graham.

What surprised me Graham’s story It is only the number of people participating in the anti -export policies in Biden, which have moved to other influential positions in the world of artificial intelligence, computing and national security. Jason Mathini, who led the White House Technology and National Security policy, is now the president and CEO of Rand, a prominent research tank that serves government agents. Tarun Chapra, who has worked in the National Security Council, is now leading the national security policy in Antarbur.