The U.S. government is expected to approve exports of Nvidia's H200 artificial intelligence chips to China, Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday, citing sources familiar with the matter.
An official announcement could come as early as Thursday afternoon U.S. time, the reports said.
The Trump administration approved exports of the H20 chip to China last summer. However, Beijing subsequently discouraged the use of H20 chips to promote domestic semiconductor adoption. The U.S. government has since been reviewing whether to permit exports of the more advanced H200 chip to China.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang recently met with President Trump at the White House to discuss semiconductor export controls, though no specific details were disclosed at the time.
A bipartisan bill to ban exports of advanced semiconductors to China was recently introduced in the U.S. Senate. Meanwhile, the White House's AI division has pushed for exports of capable, if not cutting-edge, AI chips like the H200 to make China "addicted" to American AI technology.
The differing positions between the administration and Congress highlight the policy debate. If the H200 export is officially approved, it would signal that the administration's approach is prevailing.
