U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to Japanese journalists aboard Air Force One en route to South Korea on October 29, 2025.
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US President Donald Trump will discuss Nvidia’s advanced AI chips with Chinese President Xi Jinping in a widely anticipated meeting on Thursday, he told a media scrum on Wednesday.
While fielding questions about his high-stakes meeting with Xi, Trump hinted that they might discuss Nvidia’s Blackwell AI processors.
“We talk about Blackwell. It’s a top-notch chip,” he said. Nvidia’s “super-duper chip” appears to be referring to the company’s most advanced AI chip, the GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip.
More broadly, Nvidia’s Blackwell architecture represents the latest generation of AI chips, or “graphics processing units,” used to train and run large-scale language models.
President Trump went on to praise Nvidia’s Blackwell chip, claiming it is about a decade ahead of any other chip.
“That’s our country. We’re about 10 years ahead of other countries in chips, highly sophisticated chips. I think we’re probably talking about that with President Xi.”
The comments come as Nvidia faces an uncertain future in China, once a lucrative market for AI darlings.
Nvidia had long been unable to sell cutting-edge AI products to China due to export restrictions, but in July the U.S. government lifted restrictions on the chipmaker’s less advanced H20 chips destined for China.
President Trump has since indicated that he may allow downgraded versions of Nvidia’s Blackwell chips to be imported into China.
But in a surprising move, the Chinese government recently intervened to block its companies from importing Nvidia chips. Earlier this month, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the company is now “100% outside China” and has no market share in China.
However, many experts speculate that the Chinese government may be using Nvidia’s access to its home market as leverage in trade negotiations with the Trump administration.
