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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Anton Shilov

Trump may allow Nvidia to ship hobbled current-gen Blackwell AI GPUs to China — U.S. gov't would get 15% of related revenue, China firms would get access to far faster GPUs

Nvidia Blackwell Ultra B300 racks and servers.

U.S. President Donald Trump indicated he might permit Nvidia to sell cut-down versions of its Blackwell AI processors to Chinese entities, provided that the company cuts their performance significantly and shares 15% of revenue obtained from such transactions to the federal government, reports Bloomberg. The same can be applied to AMD's Instinct MI308. 

"It is possible I would make a deal [on a] 'somewhat enhanced in a negative way — Blackwell' processor," Trump told reporters earlier today. "In other words, take 30% to 50% off of it." 

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