2 Senate Democrats Oppose Selling Nvidia H200 Chips to China
Senate Banking Committee ranking member Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Sen. Andy Kim, D-N.J., ranking member on the Banking Subcommittee on National Security and International Trade and Finance, urged the Trump administration Dec. 3 to block the sale of Nvidia’s H200 AI chips to China, saying the advanced semiconductors could enhance the country’s military and surveillance capabilities.
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In a letter to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, the senators said the sale also could come at the expense of American businesses because the chips are in short supply.
"We should not allow Big Tech firms like Nvidia to sell sensitive technology to governments that do not share our values and open ourselves to the risk that these technologies will be used against American service members, workers, and our long-term economic and national security," the lawmakers wrote.
Commerce and Nvidia had no immediate comment on the letter, but Lutnick said in late November that the administration was weighing whether to lift restrictions on H200 exports to China (see 2511240029). The administration agreed earlier this year to allow Nvidia to sell the less powerful H20 AI chip to China, a move that some lawmakers, including Warren, opposed (see 2507150013 and 2507280012).