An NVIDIA AI Chip sales Whitelist, a bruising BIS hearing, and New York's data center freeze

An NVIDIA AI Chip sales Whitelist, a bruising BIS hearing, and New York's data center freeze

July 17, 2026 · 40 min · Episode 3

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The episode discusses NVIDIA's new whitelist for AI chip sales and its implications for China and global technology policy.

NVIDIA has quietly cut more than half its authorized Asian customers, building a new whitelist to keep advanced AI chips from reaching China through third countries. Gregory C. Allen and co-host Adam Goodwin dig into what that reversal says about years of NVIDIA denials, the firm's Washington overhaul under new external-affairs chief Bruce Andrews, and a striking claim from inside China that every chip it can make — "even those lower grade chips that no one wanted before" — is now sold out. T...

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