BESSENT SAYS IT WAS CLEAR CHINA SHOULDN'T GET ANY CHIPS ABOVE H100S

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated that it was clear China should not receive any advanced AI chips beyond Nvidia's H100 accelerators, signaling a firm ceiling on the export licensing framework for semiconductors sold into China. The transmission mechanism runs through the technology supply chain: tighter caps on chip performance compress the addressable market for U.S. AI hardware vendors in China and raise the cost of compute for Chinese AI developers, shifting the competitive balance between the two economies' semiconductor and cloud ecosystems. Nvidia and other U.S. data center chip suppliers face the most direct revenue exposure, while Chinese domestic chip designers and foundry partners could see relative demand support as buyers are pushed toward locally produced alternatives. Traders should watch the Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security for any formal rule text or license-policy updates that would convert this statement into binding restrictions, as well as Nvidia's next quarterly disclosures on China revenue and any guidance changes.

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