U.S. Lawmakers Blast Trump Over Nvidia AI Chip Sales to China

U.S. lawmakers sharply criticized the Trump administration for allowing the sale of advanced Nvidia artificial intelligence (AI) chips to China. They demanded the decision be reversed. The criticism came during a congressional foreign affairs hearing. Witnesses and members of Congress called the approval a dangerous mistake. They argued that selling Nvidia's H200 chips would "supercharge" China's military modernization. The H200 is Nvidia's second-most powerful AI chip. Letting China buy it, they said, puts U.S. security at risk. A top White House technology adviser defended the decision in testimony. This was the administration's first public explanation of its latest export control rules. The adviser did not agree that the sales would damage U.S. interests. This defense did not satisfy the critics at the hearing, who called the policy a "wrong path."