United States of America: US Central Government order requiring export licensing concerning NVIDIA Corporation's H20 integrated circuits and comparable products enters into force

On 9 April 2025, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) disclosed that the United States government informed NVIDIA Corporation that it now requires an export licence for shipments to China (including Hong Kong and Macau) and countries listed under D:5 export controls, as well as entities headquartered or ultimately owned in those countries, covering NVIDIA’s H20 integrated circuits and any other circuits with comparable memory or interconnect bandwidth. The licence requirement, according to the government, aims to prevent the use or diversion of these products in Chinese supercomputing systems. The restriction will apply indefinitely.