President Donald Trump curbed sales of Nvidia’s H2O artificial intelligence chips to China in April as part of an escalation of his trade war with Beijing. But the leading AI chips group said on Monday it had been told by the US government that Washington would resume approvals for these chips to be sold to Chinese companies.

American chipmaking giant Nvidia says it plans to resume sales to China of an artificial intelligence chip that’s become part of a global race pitting the world’s biggest economies against each other.