(Jan 29): Nvidia Corp hasn’t yet received any orders from Chinese customers for its H200 AI chips as Beijing is still deciding whether to allow imports of the US firm’s components, according to its chief executive officer.
“I’m hoping that the Chinese government would allow Nvidia to sell the H200,” Nvidia boss Jensen Huang told reporters in Taipei on Thursday. “It’s up to the Chinese government now but they are still deciding, and we are waiting patiently.”
Huang said he met customers and government officials during a trip to China over the past few days, but no new orders for the H200 chips were placed. Chinese officials recently told the country’s largest tech firms including Alibaba Group Holding Ltd they can prepare orders for the chips, suggesting Beijing is close to formally approving imports of components essential to powering artificial intelligence.
The executive added that the chip is “very good” for the Chinese market and his customers would very much like to have H200, an older-generation of Nvidia’s AI offering that the US has in principle agreed to be sold to China. He said the US license for H200 is being finalised.
The world’s most valuable company is looking to claw back its business in the globe’s biggest semiconductor arena after US President Donald Trump’s administration said the H200 chip could be exported to China, even as it restricts sales of leading-edge components on national security grounds.
Nvidia’s chips are considered to be the gold standard for developing and running AI models and they are highly prized by the world’s data center operators. Huang said Nvidia’s main production partner Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co would need to “add tremendous amounts of capacity in the next decade” to meet demand.
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