The Trump administration's decision to allow Nvidia's H20 chips back into China has triggered a surge of urgent orders from major Chinese cloud providers, reviving not only Nvidia's outlook but also lifting sentiment across the AI semiconductor ecosystem.

The U.S. House Select Committee on China has expressed concerns about the Trump administration's decision to allow Nvidia ( NASDAQ: NVDA) to resume shipments of its H20 AI chips to China.

NVIDIA's H20 AI GPUs are once again allowed to be sold in China following a reversal of restrictions by the Trump administration, and NVIDIA's CEO claims it wasn't he who changed the US President's mind.

Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang says China’s fast‑growing open‑source AI market is helping drive the worldwide boom in the technology and that his company

Data center operators in China, which use Nvidia’s H20 chips to crunch data for various AI services, have been struggling to find a local alternative that is as good as the U.S. company’s chips.

In April 2025, the U.S. expanded restrictions to include the Nvidia H20 chip, a China-specific version designed to comply with earlier export rules.