U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to members of the property arsenic helium departs the White House for Joint Base Andrews connected Oct. 24, 2025 successful Washington, DC.
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U.S. President Donald Trump plans to sermon Nvidia's precocious AI chips with Chinese President Xi Jinping during their wide expected gathering connected Thursday, helium told a media scrum Wednesday.
While taking questions regarding his high-stakes gathering with Xi, Trump signaled that Nvidia's Blackwell AI processors could beryllium discussed.
"We'll beryllium speaking astir Blackwell, it's the ace duper chip," helium said. Nvidia's "super duper chip" appeared to notation to the GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip — its astir precocious AI chip.
More broadly, Nvidia's Blackwell architecture represents its latest procreation of AI chips, oregon 'graphics processing units,' utilized to bid and tally ample connection models.
Trump went connected to laud Nvidia's Blackwell chips, claiming that they are astir a decennary up of immoderate different chip.
"That's our country. We're astir 10 years up of anybody other successful chips — successful the highly blase chips. I deliberation we whitethorn beryllium talking astir that with President Xi."
The comments travel arsenic Nvidia faces tightening entree to the Chinese market.
While export controls person agelong prevented Nvidia from selling its astir precocious AI chips to China, Washington had rolled backmost restrictions connected the chipmaker's made-for-China H20 chips successful July.
Trump aboriginal indicated that helium mightiness besides let a downgraded mentation of Nvidia's Blackwell chips into the Chinese market.
But successful a astonishment move, Beijing aboriginal stepped successful to forestall its companies from importing Nvidia's chips. Earlier this month, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the institution is presently "100% retired of China" and has nary marketplace stock there.
However, galore experts speculate that Beijing could beryllium utilizing Nvidia's entree to its marketplace arsenic leverage successful its commercialized negotiations with the Trump administration.
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