White House slaps new curbs on exports of Nvidia AI chips
White House unveiled sweeping new restrictions on the sale of advanced AI chips by Nvidia Corp and its peers, leaving the Trump administration to decide how and whether to implement curbs that have encountered fierce industry opposition.
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The rules, which are set to take effect in one year, establish caps on the amount of computing power that can be sold to most countries. Businesses in those places can bypass national limits by agreeing to a set of security and human rights standards, officials said Sunday.
Companies will have a 120-day comment period-which is exceptionally long-to give the Trump administration time to get settled in and make changes to the rule after consulting with industry and other countries, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo told reporters ahead of the release.
Raimondo stressed that the Biden administration sought to strike a balance between protecting national security and allowing trade in chips to continue. Supply chain activities and gaming chips are excluded from the new curbs, she added. And Washington will waive licensing for the sale of chips with low collective computing power, such as to universities and research institutes.
«This is very hard, and no rule is perfect,» she said. «Managing the national security risks requires
