Nvidia stock would benefit from being permitted sales to China, but the deal with the Trump administration is likely to face legal scrutiny.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday suggested he might allow Nvidia to sell a scaled-down version of its next-generation advanced GPU chip in China, despite deep-seated fears in Washington that China could harness U.

The president said that Nvidia would pay the government in exchange for easing export restrictions — and that he'd initially asked for a larger cut.