Nvidia, NVDA, is in talks with US to sell AI chip to China, and willing to give US cut of Blackwell China sales

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on Thursday that he has been in discussions with the Trump administration about potentially selling the company’s powerful Blackwell chip to China, emphasizing that broad adoption of American technology worldwide could give the U.S. an edge in the global AI race.

In an interview with FOX Business host Liz Claman on The Claman Countdown, Huang described himself as “optimistic” about the talks with President Donald Trump, though he cautioned there is no set timeline for a deal. “I think the conversation will take a while, but President Trump understands that having the world build AI on American tech stack helps America win the AI race,” Huang explained. “He wants American technology to be everywhere, so the whole world runs on the American standard, the same way the U.S. dollar is the global standard.”

Huang also spoke more broadly about the transformative power of artificial intelligence, calling it an industrial revolution that would bring wide-ranging benefits but also disrupt existing jobs. He said AI would boost productivity, spur GDP growth, and create opportunities for innovation, while acknowledging that some jobs would disappear even as new roles emerge. “Every industrial revolution changes social behavior,” Huang said. “I expect the economy to do very well because of AI and automation. Life quality will improve over time. Some jobs will go away, many will be invented, but one thing for sure: every job will be changed by AI.”

Looking further ahead, Huang suggested that productivity gains could eventually make shorter work weeks possible. “We could spend more time on weekends with family, do some reading, travel — nothing is better than that,” he said, noting the historic shift from seven-day work weeks to five-day ones and predicting a possible move toward four-day weeks in the future.