At the beginning of July, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick gave chip makers like Nvidia a green light to start selling certain AI chips again in China, but his department is said to be holding things.
According to a report from Reuters, Nvidia has not yet received a license to sell the H20 AI chips.
The US Department of Commerce is currently sitting in the backlog of licensing applications due to disruption within the department, due to staff loss and breakdowns of communication with the industry on a Reuters basis.
The holdup comes as national security experts are urging the Trump administration to restrict Nvidia from selling H20 AI chips to China for national security reasons.