Commerce Dept.’s backlog reportedly has suspended Nvidia’s H20 chip license

At the beginning of July, US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick gave chip makers like Nvidia Green light to start selling certain AI chips again in Chinabut his department is said to hold things.

According to Report from ReutersNvidia has not yet received a license to sell the H20 AI chip.

The US Department of Commerce is currently sitting in the backlog of licensing applications due to disruption within the department due to staff losses and disruptions in communications with the industry on a Reuters-by-Reuters basis.

This holdup is as follows National security experts are urging The Trump administration is in order to restrict Nvidia from selling H20 AI chips to China for national security reasons.