China wants the United States to relieve export controls in critical chips for artificial intelligence as part of a commercial agreement before a possible summit between presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, the Financial Times reported on Sunday.
Chinese officials have told Washington experts that Beijing wants the Trump administration to relax export restrictions on high -band memory chips (HBM), the newspaper reported, citing unidentified people familiar with the matter.
The White House, the State Department and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China did not immediately respond to the requests for comments on the report.
The HBM chips, which help to perform tasks of data intensive quickly, are closely observed by investors due to their use together with the graphic processors of AI, particularly the NVDA.O.
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The successive US administrations have stopped exports of advanced chips to China, looking for Stymie Beijing’s AI and Development Defense.
While this has impacted the capacity of US companies to completely address China’s booming demand, one of the world’s largest semiconductor markets, remains an important revenue driver for US chip manufacturers.
