{"id":1012539,"date":"2026-06-05T11:44:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T06:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1012539"},"modified":"2026-06-05T11:44:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T06:14:18","slug":"in-an-unusual-weekend-announcement-us-tells-companies-to-stop-passage-of-nvidias-blackwell-ai-chips-to-china-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/05\/in-an-unusual-weekend-announcement-us-tells-companies-to-stop-passage-of-nvidias-blackwell-ai-chips-to-china-through\/","title":{"rendered":"In an unusual weekend announcement, US tells companies to stop passage of Nvidia&#8217;s Blackwell AI chips to China through&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Commerce Department quietly posted a notice on its website on Sunday that does something Washington has been dancing around for a year: it shuts a loophole that may have funnelled hundreds of thousands of Nvidia&#8217;s most powerful AI chips to Chinese companies through their offices in countries like Malaysia. The Bureau of Industry and Security said export licence rules in place since 2023 also apply to subsidiaries of China-headquartered firms operating outside Chinese borders\u2014a clarification that lands a year after the Trump administration scrapped the Biden-era AI Diffusion rule and left a gap wide enough for Blackwell processors to slip through.<\/p>\n<p>The timing tells its own story. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Commerce Department quietly posted a notice on its website on Sunday that does something Washington has been dancing around for a year: it shuts a loophole that may have funnelled hundreds of thousands of Nvidia&#8217;s most powerful AI chips to Chinese companies through their offices in countries like Malaysia. The Bureau of Industry and Security said export licence rules in place since 2023 also apply to subsidiaries of China-headquartered firms operating outside Chinese borders\u2014a clarification that lands a year after the Trump administration scrapped the Biden-era AI Diffusion rule and left a gap wide enough for Blackwell processors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012540,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012539\/revisions\/1012540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}