U.S. Restricts Export of Chips Used by China’s DeepSeek AI
The Trump administration on Monday informed U.S. chipmaker Nvidia that exports of its powerful H20 chips to China, and several other nations, will have to meet new licensing requirements.

The Trump administration on Monday informed U.S. chipmaker Nvidia that exports of its powerful H20 chips to China, and several other nations, will have to meet new licensing requirements.
AMD has announced that its key processor chips will soon be produced at TSMC’s new facility in Arizona, marking the first time AMD’s products will be manufactured in the United States. The news comes on the heels of AI giant Nvidia announcing it will produce AI chips and supercomputers in Arizona and Texas.
Nvidia has announced plans to build AI supercomputers in Texas and invest up to $500 billion in AI production within the United States.
Microsoft has been pulling back on data center projects around the world, prompting questions about the company’s expectations for future demand of cloud and AI services.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Wednesday said the chip manufacturing company could invest hundreds of billions of dollars in the United States.
Singapore police arrested three people on Thursday for allegedly smuggling chips from American tech giant Nvidia to China, throwing a spotlight on China’s efforts to obtain advanced components in defiance of export restrictions – and showing just how diligently American companies are working to enforce those restrictions.
Nvidia sales surged by 78 percent as demand for the company’s specialized AI Blackwell chips grow, according to the company’s fourth quarter financial results.
President Donald Trump and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang reportedly met at the White House on Friday to discuss China’s DeepSeek AI technology and what to do with regards to tightening chip exports moving forward.
Chinese tech giant ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, is reportedly planning to invest heavily in cloud-based access to Nvidia GPUs to circumvent U.S. sanctions that prevent the company from purchasing the high-performance processors used for AI directly.
Amazon is preparing to launch its latest AI chip, Trainium 2, as it looks to boost returns on its multibillion-dollar investments in semiconductors and decrease reliance on market leader Nvidia.
AI hardware giant Nvidia has overtaken Apple to become the world’s most valuable company, highlighting the growing dominance of artificial intelligence in the stock market.
Despite heavy investments in artificial intelligence infrastructure, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google failed to meet Wall Street’s expectations for translating AI spending into significant sales growth.
The artificial intelligence boom that revitalized US tech stocks in 2023 is now facing scrutiny as investors question the sustainability of AI-driven market gains.
Nvidia, once a niche chipmaker, has skyrocketed to become the world’s most valuable public company, surpassing tech giants like Microsoft and Apple. The company’s meteoric rise has been fueled by its industry-leading AI chips.
Federal regulators have reportedly reached an agreement to investigate the dominant roles played by Microsoft, OpenAI, and Nvidia in the rapidly evolving AI industry.
Jeff Bezos, Nvidia, and other major technology players have reportedly invested $675 million into Figure AI, a startup building human-like robots.
Nvidia reported fourth quarter results that smashed Wall Street expectations, driven by booming demand for its graphics chips to power AI systems. The company’s fourth quarter revenues grew 265 percent based on sales of its high-powered GPUs that are the most important component of many AI systems.
Frustrated with chip shortages, the company behind ChatGPT, OpenAI, is considering entering the chip manufacturing market itself, with various options including the acquisition of another chip manufacturing company on the table, per a report in Reuters.
The UK is reportedly preparing to plough £100 million of taxpayer cash into buying chips needed for advanced artificial intelligence models.
Hardware giant Nvidia, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of microchips and Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), has released a new, slightly less powerful version of its mainstream chips to comply with restrictions on microchip sales in China.
Paul Pelosi, husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), recently bought up to $5 million in stocks in a semiconductor company, the Daily Caller reported.
Cybersecurity researchers believe they may have found the hacker behind the recent “Lapsus$” cyberattacks on Microsoft and Nvidia — and their suspect is a 16-year old boy living in England.
According to recent reports, Amazon’s latest video game, New World, has been “bricking” high-end Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 graphics cards. Computer hardware is bricked when it has been damaged beyond repair, turning in this case top of the line graphics cards costing as much as $1,499 into expensive paperweights.
Bloomberg published an article recently which claims that Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s claims about the company’s new computer chips do not match reality.
ThisPersonDoesNotExist.com, a website created by an Uber software engineer, generates hyper-realistic portraits of people who don’t actually exist.
China’s economic weakness is bleeding over into U.S. companies with big exposures to sales in Asia.
Artificial intelligence has been used to created hyper-realistic portrait photographs of men, women, and children of different races who never existed, prompting one author to declare the “end of photography as evidence.”