U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) speaks with reporters outdoors his workplace within the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S., Sept. 11, 2025.
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Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson known as China an “adversary” of the U.S. on Wednesday after a report that the nation has informed tech corporations to cease shopping for Nvidia‘s artificial intelligence chips.
The Cyberspace Administration of China ordered corporations to halt purchases of Nvidia’s RTX Pro 6000D, a chip that was made for the nation, the FT reported, citing folks acquainted with the matter.
“We can only be in service of a market if a country wants us to be,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang mentioned at a press convention in response to the ban on the corporate’s chips. “I’m disappointed with what I see but they have larger agendas to work out between China and the United States.”
Last month, the White House reached a deal with Nvidia and competitor Advanced Micro Devices to acquire the export licenses to restart sure chip gross sales to China. As a part of the deal, each corporations agreed to pay 15% of the gross sales to the U.S. authorities.
Earlier this 12 months, the Trump administration informed Nvidia that it will require a license to promote its China-designed H20 processors on the earth’s second-largest economic system. The firm beforehand created the chip to bypass prior restrictions on AI chip exports instituted below the Biden administration on account of nationwide safety considerations.
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