Nvidia is discussing a potential B30A chip with the United States government for use in China AI data centers. The B30A is based on Nvidia's Blackwell technology and is reported to operate at about half the speed of the main B300 chips, making it less powerful than semiconductors currently restricted from sale to China on national security grounds. Sales of Nvidia's H20 chips to China were recently approved with a 15% U.S. tax; Advanced Micro Devices faced the same tax on MI380 sales. Broader trade talks produced reciprocal easing on some non-tariff restrictions, including rare-earth magnet exports and lifted curbs on chip-design software and jet engines. Nvidia indicated appreciation for the ability to sell H20s and asserted those sales pose no security risk to the United States.
I'm offering a new product to China for AI data centers, the follow-on to H20, Huang said. But he added that That's not our decision to make. It's up to, of course, the United States government. And we're in dialogue with them, but it's too soon to know. Such chips are graphics processing units, or GPUs, a type of device used to build and update a range of AI systems.
Huang praised the the Trump administration for recently approving sales of Nvidia's H20 chips to China after such business was suspended in April, with the proviso that the company must pay a 15% tax to the U.S. government on those sales. Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices, or AMD, was told to pay the same tax on its sales of its MI380 chips to China.
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