House China Panel Faults Trump Move to Ease Nvidia AI Sales (2)

The Trump administration’s decision allowing Nvidia Corp. to resume shipments of its H20 artificial intelligence chips to China risks bolstering Beijing’s military capabilities and expanding its capacity to compete with the US in AI, according to the head of the US House Select Committee on China.

“The H20, which is a cost-effective and powerful AI inference chip, far surpasses China’s indigenous capability and would therefore provide a substantial increase to China’s AI development,” Chairman John Moolenaar, a Michigan Republican, said Friday in a letter to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, whose agency oversees semiconductor export controls. “We must not ...