By Karen Freifeld

(Reuters) -If the Trump administration allows Nvidia to sell a version of its best AI chip to China, as the President opened the door to on Wednesday, experts say it would severely decrease the American advantage in artificial intelligence.

It could also effectively spell the end of U.S. chip export restrictions, which were put in place in 2022 to make sure Beijing’s military would not benefit from American technology, and to slow the development of China’s AI efforts.

“If we decide to export B30As, it would dramatically shrink the U.S.’s main advantage it currently has over China in AI,” said Tim Fist, co-author of a just-completed analysis of the impact of allowing China the B30A chip, a downgraded version of Nvidia’s state-of-the-art Blackwell chip.

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