Bessent says China shouldn’t get chips more advanced than Nvidia’s H100

The Treasury Secretary is drawing a hard line on AI chip exports as Washington wrestles with smuggling, enforcement gaps, and internal disagreement US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has drawn a clear line on AI chips. China, he said, should not receive anything more advanced than Nvidia ’s H100. That sounds like a simple rule. In practice, it sits at the center of one of Washington’s messiest policy fights, where national security, commercial interests, and a sprawling smuggling problem all collide. The H100 is one of Nvidia’s high-performance AI processors. It is the kind of hardware used to train and run large AI models. By naming it as the ceiling, Bessent effectively set a benchmark: anything stronger stays out of Chinese hands.

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