Nvidia’s artificial-intelligence chips have been at the center of U.S.-China trade negotiations for months, yet it appears China is discouraging its companies from buying one of them: the H20s. Why? Sales of the chips to Chinese companies helped get China to agree to reboot its exports to the U.

Beijing has urged local companies to avoid using Nvidia Corp.’s H20 processors, particularly for government-related purposes, complicating the chipmaker’s return to China after the Trump administration reversed an effective US ban on such sales.

After Trump curbed sales to China of Nvidia's H20 AI chips in April, the company's CEO personally convinced him to reverse course. The post Trump's About-Face on Chip Sales to China Sets a Troubling Precedent appeared first on World Politics Review.