TNB Tech Minute: Nvidia AI Chips to Undergo Security Review Before Export to China

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🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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0:32.7	TNB Tech Minute for Tuesday, December 9th. I'm Danny Lewis for the Wall Street Journal. The artificial
0:38.6	intelligence chips that NVIDIA will be allowed to ship to China will undergo a special security
0:43.0	review in the U.S. before they are exported. That's according to Trump administration officials.
0:48.8	NVIDIA's H-200 AI chips that are part of the deal would mainly be manufactured in Taiwan. From there, they would
0:55.1	travel to the U.S. for a national security review, people familiar with the matter said. The chips
1:00.3	would then be sent on to China. Officials didn't provide additional specifics on how the process
1:05.3	would work. The complex supply chain journey and unusual security review for the chips
1:09.7	highlights the unprecedented
1:11.1	nature of the agreement, under which the U.S. is supposed to receive a 25% cut from sales.
1:17.3	Walmart needed a new CEO to usher in the company's artificial intelligence era, outgoing
1:21.7	CEO Doug McMillan said in a CNBC interview.
1:25.4	McMillan said the many steps on the path to full AI implementation made him decide it was
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