Unrestricted, Trump said the latest NVIDIA chips can also be sold to China, addicted to taking kickbacks or addicted to installing backdoors?
US President Trump revealed that he may approve NVIDIA's sale of a simplified version of the next-generation Blackwell architecture AI chip to China.
Trump said that the chip's computing power will be 30% to 50% lower than the full version, but it is still one of the most advanced artificial intelligence hardware in the world.
At the same time, he confirmed that NVIDIA and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) have agreed to pay 15% of their sales revenue related to chips for China to the US government to obtain export licenses.
It now seems that Trump has become addicted to this kind of kickback operation, doing nothing but waiting for American companies to bring money to his door.
According to estimates, the simplified Blackwell chips (B100, B200) still far exceed the current H20 in performance.
Industry analysts say that the B100 chip's performance on multiple AI workloads is several times that of the H100, and even after being weakened, it is still sufficient to maintain an advantage in inference and training tasks.
This means that China may still obtain relatively advanced AI computing capabilities under the existing licensing framework.
Critics point out that this way of buying with money may weaken the deterrent effect of export controls and open the door for China to bypass technical blockades through financial investment.
In summary, Trump's current intention is clear: pay first, then release.
In the short term, both the US treasury and corporate revenues will benefit, but the long-term risk lies in placing security reviews and fiscal income directly at the mercy of all sorts of internal issues that are always being hyped up in the US. Trump doesn't care at all.
Of course, it cannot be ruled out that these people in the US are just acting, and these chips may not only be performance-limited but also have backdoors installed.
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