Nvidia developed the H20 to compete with Huawei, a chipmaker based in China. The US bars companies from selling US technology to Huawei. That approach appears to have been successful at slowing Huawei’s progress in developing critical technology,

Twenty national security experts and former government officials urge the Trump administration to reverse a decision to let Nvidia sell H20 AI chips in China.

Demand in China has begun surging for a business that, in theory, shouldn't exist: the repair of advanced Nvidia artificial intelligence chipsets that the U.S. has banned the export of to its trade and tech rival.