Nvidia’s rock-and-a-hard-place position on selling artificial-intelligence chips to China might have just worsened, as Beijing has reportedly told companies not to buy the chips. Notifications have been sent to several companies discouraging them from using the H20 processors,

The arrangement crafted by the Trump administration is “unusual,” analysts told CNBC, but underscores the president's transactional nature.

Nvidia and AMD have agreed to pay the US government 15% of their revenues from semiconductor sales to China in exchange for export licenses, an unprecedented quid pro quo arrangement aimed at solidifying America’s AI business dominance while maintaining trade ties with China.