And yet, in explaining why US President Donald Trump would let Nvidia and other US tech firms sell chips to China , Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick pretty much said the same. The ambitious three-year plan aims to challenge Nvidia’s AI chips by combining brute-force computing power with massive chip clusters, faster data networking and government policy support. The idea is that their combined powers can close the performance gaps even with Nvidia’s most advanced AI units. Huawei has built up what is believed to be the world’s most powerful supernode computing cluster using only local chipmaking processes. AdvertisementWith Huawei at the centre, China aims to build a domestic AI ecosystem free from US dominance.