US export controls on semiconductor chips were not a major topic of discussions with Chinese officials in Beijing, US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said in an interview yesterday.
The comments suggest a breakthrough on selling Nvidia’s advanced H200 chips to China remains far away, despite Nvidia Corp chief executive officer Jensen Huang’s (黃仁勳) last-minute invitation to travel with US President Donald Trump to Beijing this week alongside other CEOs of tope US tech companies.
“This was not a major topic of discussion at the bilateral meeting. We did not talk about chip export controls at the meeting,” Greer said, adding that “15 to 17” US chief executive officers at Thursday’s meeting between Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) spoke about their companies’ issues.
The US had cleared about 10 Chinese companies to buy H200s, including Alibaba (阿里巴巴), Tencent (騰訊) and Bytedance (字節跳動), but not a single delivery has been made so far. The Trump administration approved H200 exports to China in December last year and added further conditions in January.
Allowing the H200 imports would be a “sovereign decision” for China, Greer said.
