Donald Trump’s flawed plan to get China hooked on Nvidia chips

In the race to dominate artificial intelligence (AI), China is neck and neck with America in software. Chinese models now routinely outperform many American ones on popular benchmarks. But on hardware, a gap remains. America’s chipmakers, led by Nvidia, are far ahead. PREMIUM Presidents Xi Jinping and Donald Trump.(AFP) Chart. Although the H200 lags behind Nvidia’s latest chip, the Blackwell, and will soon be eclipsed by its next, the Rubin, it is more than six times as powerful as t