Trump approves export of old-gen Nvidia H200 Chips to China with conditions, revenue share

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that he will allow Nvidia to ship its H200 chips to approved customers in China and other countries, under conditions that allow for continued strong national security.

The U.S. Department of Commerce is finalizing the details, and the same approach will apply to AMD, Intel, and other U.S. companies, Trump said in a post on X.

"$25% will be paid to the United States of America," Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform.


Meanwhile, according to a report of Financial Times, Beijing is set to limit access to Nvidia's advanced H200 chips despite Trump's decision to allow the export of the technology.

The H200 is an older generation of Nvidia's AI chips, built on its Hopper architecture launched in 2022, which preceded the latest Blackwell architecture revealed last year.

Nvidia's latest AI server, which packs 72 Blackwell chips into a single computer, improves the performance of some AI models by 10 times, compared with H200 servers, according to data published by the company earlier this month.

According to a report released on Sunday by the non-partisan think tank, the Institute for Progress (IFP), the Blackwell chip now in use by U.S. AI firms is about 1.5 times faster than H200 chips for training AI systems and five times faster for inferencing work, where AI models are put to use.

However, the H200 would be almost six times as powerful as the H20, the most advanced AI semiconductor that can legally be exported to China, according to IFP's report.