The Trump administration’s decision allowing Nvidia Corp. to resume shipments of its H20 artificial intelligence chips to China risks bolstering Beijing’s military capabilities and expanding its capacity to compete with the US in AI,

Nvidia’s scaled-down chip is called the H20. Introduced in 2023, it’s a slower version of the company’s H100 chip, which was at one point its fastest data center AI accelerator. AMD’s scaled-down chip is known as the MI308.

John Moolenaar, chairman of the House Select Committee on China, on Friday objected to the resumption of Nvidia H20 equivalent graphics processing unit sales to China in a letter to U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.