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Title: NVIDIA is reportedly developing an AI chip for China more powerful
than the H20

Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2025 13:30:57 +0000
Link: https://www.engadget.com/ai/nvidia-is-reporte...

NVIDIA is working on a new AI chip meant for the Chinese market that's more
powerful than the H20, according to Reuters. It will reportedly be based on
the company's latest Blackwell architecture, which can produce chips between
seven and 30 times faster than its previous AI platform. Reuters says the
product is tentatively named B30A and will have a single-die design, putting
all its main components on a single piece of silicon. It will apparently be
capable of half the computing power of NVIDIA's Blackwell Ultra GPUs, which
have dual-die configuration. The product will also come with high-bandwidth
memory and the company's NVLink technology for speedier data transmission
between processors.

It's possible that NVIDIA is developing the chip after the Chinese government
discouraged local companies from using the H20, especially for government and
national security purposes. Chinese regulators even reportedly ordered big
tech corporations, including Alibaba, Bytedance and Tencent, to suspend their
purchases from NVIDIA until the government is done with a national security
review. China's warning to local companies came after the US government
lifted its export restriction on the company's H20 chips.

If you'll recall, the US blocked the company from selling its H20 chips to
China back in April over concerns that the Chinese military could use the
chips to develop AI technology. In July, NVIDIA announced that the government
has assured the company that it will approve licenses to ship and export H20
chips to China. The Financial Times then reported in August that the
government had agreed to grant NVIDIA (and AMP) export licenses in exchange
for 15 percent of their profits.

Reuters says NVIDIA is still finalizing the specs of B30A, but it's hoping to
deliver samples to Chinese clients for testing as soon as September this
year. Trump seems to already be aware that NVIDIA is working on a chip based
on Blackwell for the Chinese market, but whether it gets regulatory and
export approval remains to be seen: The president told reporters that NVIDIA
CEO Jensen Huan is "coming to see [him] again about that."

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