By Stephen Nellis

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 12 (Reuters) – U.S. lawmaker John Moolenaar, the chair of the U.S. House of Representatives’ bipartisan select committee focused on China, on ‍Friday asked Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to explain the details of President Donald Trump’s decision to allow Nvidia to sell its H200 chips to China.

The move by Trump earlier this week signaled a marked break with precedent from Trump’s own first administration and that ‌of former President Joseph Biden’s of not allowing ‌China access to the most powerful artificial intelligence hardware from U.S. chip firms. The H200 is the predecessor to Nvidia’s current flagship chips and is still in use in the U.S. AI industry.

In a letter to Lutnick on Friday, Moolenaar cited media reports that said Trump’s decisio

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