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.

Washington has been concerned China could use Nvidia’s chips to get a jump on the U.S. in high-tech fields, particularly when it comes to artificial intelligence.

Nvidia announced Monday that it's filing applications to restart sales of its H20 artificial intelligence chips to China, capping a spasmodic few months