The Trump administration’s decision allowing Nvidia Corp. to resume shipments of its H20 artificial intelligence chips to China risks bolstering Beijing’s military capabilities and expanding its capacity to compete with the US in AI,

The chairman of the House Select Committee on China on Friday objected to the resumption of Nvidia H20 AI chip sales to China in a letter to U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.

Nvidia said on Tuesday that it is filing applications with the U.S. government to resume sales of its previously restricted H20 GPU to clients in China. "The U.S. government has assured NVIDIA that licenses will be granted,