This may be a “concession” from the Silicon Valley firm to get the White House to loosen further AI regulations, one analyst speculated.

President Donald Trump’s administration has barred Nvidia Corp. from selling its H20 chip to China, an escalation of Washington’s tech battle with Beijing that will cost the company billions of dollars and hamstring a product line it explicitly designed to comply with previous US curbs.

The U.S. Commerce Department announced new export licensing requirements on Tuesday targeting Nvidias H20 and AMDs MI308 artificial intelligence chips, along with equivalent models, restricting their shipment to China.