20 National Security Experts urge Trump Administration to limit sales of NVIDIA H20 to China
Not everyone is happy with the Trump administration Give Nvidia a green light We will start selling H20 Advanced AI chips again in China.
A group of 20 national security experts and former government officials I wrote a letter to the US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick urged the Trump administration on Monday Reversing recent decision that nvidia can resume selling H20 AI chips in China.
The letter is called the Trump administration’s recent decision and is called a “strategic mistake” that has detrimental impact on the US AI “edge” for both military and civilian use cases.
The letter specifically called AI inference in H20, calling the process of determining invisible data using a trained AI model.
“The H20 is a powerful accelerator for China’s frontier AI capabilities and is not an outdated AI chip,” the letter states. “The H20, specifically designed to avoid export control thresholds, is optimized for inference. This is a dramatic ability-enhancing process performed by the latest generation of frontier AI inference models. In the inference task, if above the H100, the AI chip limits access because this management has progressed.”
The letter also claimed that selling H20 chips in China would exacerbate the existing US AI chip bottleneck. These chips can be used to support Chinese troops. And this decision will weaken overall chip export control.
“The decision to ban H20 exports earlier this year was right,” the letter said. “We ask that we endure that principle and continue to block the sale of advanced AI chips to China, where the US works to maintain its technology advantage. This is not a trade issue, it is a national security issue.
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Signatories for the letter include Matt Pottinger, former deputy national security adviser during Trump’s first term. Stewart Baker, former deputy secretary for homeland security under George W. Bush. David Faith, a former member of the National Security Council.
The letter comes two weeks after the document gave Nvidia a green light and began selling AI chips again in China. Continuing trade debate with China over rare earth elements. At the time, Lutnick tried to downplay the decision, saying Nvidia’s H20 was the company’s “fourth-best” AI chip.
Last week, the Trump administration announced its AI Action Plan. Shedding light on the details As to what those export controls look like.