{"id":14371,"date":"2025-11-03T07:34:46","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T05:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/china-other-countries-cant-have-nvidias-top-ai-chips-trump\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:26:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:26:59","slug":"china-other-countries-cant-have-nvidias-top-ai-chips-trump","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/china-other-countries-cant-have-nvidias-top-ai-chips-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"China, other countries can&#8217;t have Nvidia&#8217;s top AI chips: Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">During a taped interview that aired on Sunday on <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">CBS&#8217;s<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; program and in comments to reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump said only US customers should have access to <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">the<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> top-end Blackwell chips <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">offered by Nvidia<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, the world&#8217;s most valuable company by market capitalisation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&#8220;The most advanced, we will not let anybody have them other than the United States,&#8221; he told <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">CBS<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, echoing remarks made earlier to reporters as he returned to Washington from a weekend in Florida. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&#8220;We don&#8217;t give (the Blackwell) chip to other people,&#8221; he said during the flight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The remarks suggest Trump may impose tighter restrictions <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">around<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> cutting-edge American AI chips than US officials previously <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">had<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> indicated, <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">with<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> China and potentially the rest of the world <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">barred<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> from accessing the most sophisticated semiconductors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In July, the Trump administration released a new artificial intelligence blueprint seeking to loosen environmental rules and vastly expand AI exports to allies, in a bid to maintain the American edge over China in the critical technology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14372,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-14371","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Artificial intelligence (AI) giant Nvidia's most advanced chips will be reserved for United States (US) companies and kept out of China and other countries, US President Donald Trump said.","published_date":null,"news_description":"Artificial intelligence (AI) giant Nvidia's most advanced chips will be reserved for United States (US) companies and kept out of China and other countries, US President Donald Trump said.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19063,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14371\/revisions\/19063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=14371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}