Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang has been active on the government relations and lobbying front, and now he’s got something big to show for his efforts: the Trump Administration has agreed to lift a ban on selling Nvidia H20 AI chips to China.

The Trump administration's decision to allow Nvidia's H20 chips back into China has triggered a surge of urgent orders from major Chinese cloud providers, reviving not only Nvidia's outlook but also lifting sentiment across the AI semiconductor ecosystem.

NVIDIA's upcoming China-specific B30 AI GPU has estimated 75% of the performance of H20, with demand for B30 'significant' and orders already placed.

In April 2025, the U.S. expanded restrictions to include the Nvidia H20 chip, a China-specific version designed to comply with earlier export rules.

Amid rising doubts over China's AI trajectory, two setbacks have rattled its startup ecosystem: Manus, the buzzed-about AI agent startup, is reportedly exiting the Chinese market, while DeepSeek R2 — a trillion-parameter large language model — is facing a critical GPU shortfall.

China plans to build 39 AI data centers using over 115,000 restricted Nvidia GPUs, with 70% going to a massive site in Xinjiang, potentially defying U.S. export bans and raising concerns over sourcing.

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