Nvidia in talks with Trump administration about “new product to China”, says CEO

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who arrived in Taipei on Friday, said that the company is in dialogue with the US government over offering China a successor to its H20 chip.

Huang visited Taiwan for a meeting with Nvidia’s key manufacturing partner, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp (TSMC).

During the meeting, he was asked about Nvidia’s chip named the B30A, based on its latest Blackwell architecture, which is expected to operate at about half the speed of Nvidia’s top B300 chips. This makes the chip less advanced than the company’s core semiconductor products, which are prohibited from being sold to China.

“I’m offering a new product to China for ... AI data centers, the follow-on to H20,” Huang said, according to Reuters.

He added that he’s in talks with the US government, but that it’s not the company’s decision to make.

"It’s up to, of course, the US government, and we are in dialogue with them, but it is too soon to know," he said.

Nvidia was only recently allowed to resume sales of the H20, which was developed specifically for China. Sales were abruptly halted in April due to security concerns — specifically, to prevent the Chinese military and other agencies from acquiring high-end AI solutions that could be used to threaten national security, or develop AI models that could compete with American AI models.

The export controls potentially threatened Nvidia's business in one of its largest markets, China, which accounted for 13% of Nvidia's total sales in its last fiscal year that ended on January 26th.

The Trump administration later revoked the decision, allowing for the sale of scaled-down chips like the H20 but obligating the company to pay a 15% tax to the US government on those sales. The same rule applies to chip maker Advanced Micro Devices, or AMD, which was also ordered to pay the 15% tax on its sales to China.

Chinese authorities, as well as China's cyberspace regulator and state media, later warned Chinese tech companies against purchasing Nvidia chips, raising concerns over “serious security issues.” Nvidia dismissed those claims, saying the H20 has no “backdoors” and added that it’s working with Beijing to ease these concerns.

In July, a group of US senators issued a warning to Huang, cautioning him against meeting with companies that are suspected of undermining US chip export controls during his China trip.