The terms of the truce in the trade war between China and the United States are beginning to be revealed. They clarified themselves during a visit to the Empire of the medium of the boss of the leader of the chips for artificial intelligence NVIDIA, very coveted by Beijing but of which Washington had blocked deliveries in April. “I was assured that the licenses will unlock very quickly”, Guaranteed China Jensen Huang on Wednesday July 16, On the sidelines of a lounge on the supply chains, in the Chinese capital.
A turnaround of the American position when Donald Trump’s administration had given the impression of placing himself in the wake of Joe Biden’s policy by trying as much as possible to stem the Chinese catch -up in microprocessors.
In April, in full climbing customs duties, the United States had thus blocked deliveries by NVIDIA of a chip model, the H20, however designed in response to previous limitations on the capacity of the products sold to China imposed in 2022 by Joe Biden. In retaliation, China has set up strong restrictions on the delivery of critical metals on which it has a quasi-monopoly, rare heavy earths, creating a shortage.
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