Trump blocked Nvidia from exporting its advanced Blackwell AI chips to China just before his October 30 meeting with Xi

U.S. officials stopped Nvidia from moving ahead with a major chip export deal to China in the final hours before President Donald Trump met President Xi Jinping in Busan, South Korea, on October 30, according to reporting from the Wall Street Journal. Trump had planned to raise the issue during the summit after Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia, pushed for approval to sell the company’s newest Blackwell generation of artificial intelligence chips to Chinese firms. The request was urgent because the chips are critical to training and running advanced AI systems, and the potential sales were worth tens...