Like Nvidia’s H20 chips, AMD’s MI308 products were specifically restricted by the Trump administration following the roll-back of the Biden-era AI Diffusion Rule, which was set to restrict access to AI chips and AI model weights by countries, determined by a tiered system decided by the US government.

The decision to lift the ban on the H20 chip was entirely in the hands of the American and Chinese governments and whatever trade talks they had, he said.