U.S. President Donald Trump plans to discuss Nvidia’s advanced AI chips with Chinese President Xi Jinping during their widely expected meeting on Thursday, he told a media scrum Wednesday. 

While taking questions regarding his high-stakes meeting with Xi, Trump signaled that Nvidia’s Blackwell AI processors could be discussed. 

“We’ll be speaking about Blackwell, it’s the super duper chip,” he said. Nvidia’s “super duper chip” appeared to refer to the GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip — its most advanced AI chip.

More broadly, Nvidia’s Blackwell architecture represents its latest generation of AI chips, or ‘graphics processing units,’ used to train and run large language models.

Trump went on to laud Nvidia’s Blackwell chips, claiming that they are about a decade ahead of any other chip.

“That’s our country. We’re about 10 years ahead of anybody else in chips — in the highly sophisticated chips. I think we may be talking about that with President Xi.” 

The comments come as Nvidia faces an uncertain future in China, once a lucrative market for the AI darling.

While export controls have long prevented Nvidia from selling its most advanced AI products to China, Washington had rolled back restrictions on the chipmaker’s less advanced, made-for-China H20 chips in July. 

Trump later indicated that he might also allow a downgraded version of Nvidia’s Blackwell chips into China.

But in a surprise move, Beijing recently stepped in to prevent its companies from importing Nvidia’s chips. Earlier this month, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the company is currently “100% out of China” and has no market share there. 

However, many experts speculate that Beijing could be using Nvidia’s access to its market as leverage in its trade negotiations with the Trump administration.