{"id":614,"date":"2026-05-31T20:43:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T20:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=614"},"modified":"2026-05-31T20:43:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T20:43:54","slug":"us-takes-step-to-halt-nvidia-ai-chip-shipments-to-chinese-firms-outside-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=614","title":{"rendered":"US takes step to halt Nvidia AI chip shipments to Chinese firms outside China"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Summary<\/li>\n<li>Companies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>May 31 (Reuters) &#8211; The U.S. Department \u200cof Commerce on Sunday moved to close a year-old potential loophole it had created that may have led companies to export the world&#8217;s most advanced chips &#8211; like Nvidia&#8217;s (NVDA.O)<svg><\/svg><span>, opens new tab<\/span> most sophisticated Rubin and Blackwell processors, \u200bas well as AMD&#8217;s (AMD.O)<svg><\/svg><span>, opens new tab<\/span> MI350x &#8211; to Chinese entities located outside China.<\/div>\n<div>The unexpected guidance suggests \u200bthe United States&#8217; best AI chips may have been making their way \u2060to the subsidiaries of Chinese AI firms based in places like Malaysia for almost \u200ba year despite broader U.S. efforts to starve Chinese firms of semiconductors needed to develop critical \u200bAI capabilities.<\/div>\n<div>The new guidance was posted on the Commerce Department&#8217;s website on Sunday.<\/div>\n<div>It is unclear how many of the chips have been exported in the year that the Trump administration left the door open. One \u200bchip industry source with deep supply-chain knowledge estimated it was in the hundreds of \u200bthousands.<\/div>\n<div>In unusual weekend guidance, the Commerce Department said it would enforce license requirements for advanced chips to entities \u200cheadquartered \u2060in China, even when the entities were located outside China.<\/div>\n<div>The Commerce Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/div>\n<div>Nvidia and AMD did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/div>\n<div>The Commerce Department created the opening when it announced in May 2025 that it would not be enforcing \u200bthe AI Diffusion rule \u200bissued in the \u2060last days of the Biden administration. 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