By Liam Mo, Anne Marie Roantree and Che Pan BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) -Chinese firms are scrambling to buy Nvidia H20 artificial intelligence chips, two sources told Reuters, as the company said it plans to resume sales to the mainland days after its CEO met U.

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.

Chinese firms have begun rushing to order Nvidia's H20 AI chips as the company plans to resume sales to mainland China, Reuters reports. The chip giant expects to receive US government licenses soon so that it can restart shipments of the restricted processors just days after CEO Jensen Huang met with President Donald Trump,