Trump says Nvidia's high-end Blackwell chip did not figure in talks with China's Xi

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Trump says Nvidia's high-end Blackwell chip did not figure in talks with China's Xi
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GYEONGJU (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said ​on Thursday he did not discuss ‌chipmaker Nvidia's state-of-art Blackwell artificial ‌intelligence chip during talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

He was walking back the previous day's remarks about potentially helping the company ⁠to export ‌a scaled-down version of its current flagship GPU processor, ‍a key component in the AI race.

But Nvidia's hopes to get approval from the United ​States and China to sell a scaled-‌down version of its most powerful AI chip yet took a hit from Trump's comments on Thursday.

"We're not talking about Blackwell chips," ⁠Trump told reporters aboard ​Air Force One, ​after leaving the meeting with Xi, their first since he returned ‍to the ⁠White House.

En route to South Korea on Wednesday, he said he ⁠might discuss the chip with the Chinese leader.

‌(Reporting by Eduardo Baptista; ‌Editing by Clarence Fernandez)

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