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20 national security experts urge Trump administration to restrict Nvidia H20 sales to China


The letter states that allowing sales of the H20 AI chip to China could hurt the U.S.'s AI "edge" and further chip bottlenecks in the U.S.

The letter called the Trump administration’s recent decision a “strategic misstep” that will have detrimental effects on the U.S.’s AI “edge” for both military and civilian use cases. “Designed specifically to work around export control thresholds, the H20 is optimized for inference, the process responsible for the dramatic capabilities gains made by the latest generation of frontier AI reasoning models. “We ask you to stand by that principle and continue blocking the sale of advanced AI chips to China as America works to maintain its technological edge.

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