Nvidia in talks with us to sell a more advanced segment to China: Huang

Nafidia The CEO of Jensen Huang said on Friday that talks with the US government about charging a new chip more advanced to China.

Earlier this week, Reuters It has been reported that the American technology giant is developing a new artificial intelligence chip for China, which is called B30a, which will be stronger than H20 – allows the almost only NVIDIA to sell in the country at the present time. The United States has become anxious in the past few years of using advanced American chips in Chinese military applications.

Huang journalist asked about B30a during a trip to Taiwan.

“The introduction of a new product to China to the data center, artificial intelligence data centers, and follow -up to H20, this is not our decision to take. It is of course related to the United States government. We are in a dialogue with them. But it is too early to know.”

Last month, Huang said NVIDIA hopes to sell more advanced chips in China than H20 while visiting the country.

NVIDIA’s position in China has become a headache for Hanging. The company created a special and less immune segment for China called H20, which this year is the United States government Export restricted. In July, NVIDIA said it had given permission to sell this slide again in China. Later, this was revealed NVIDIA will give 15 % of its sales to chips in China to the United States government In exchange for export licenses.

Just as it seemed that NVIDIA has returned to China, it struck other road barriers, as the Chinese authorities raised concerns this month about the potential security weaknesses in the company’s chips. Nafidia He said Its products do not contain “killing keys and rear devices” integrated.

Several reports this month suggested that the Chinese government has urged local companies Not to use NVIDIA chips.

Huang has argued that NVIDIA should be allowed to sell its chips to China, so that the country’s artificial intelligence was built on American technology and local technology giants such as Huawei does not fill the void.

This message seemed to reach Washington. In July, when the H20 was approved for export again, the US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lottenic told CNBC This step was allowed because NVIDIA will not give its best technology.

“We do not sell them the best things we have, not the second best we have, not even our best.”

However, the I mentioned financial times On Thursday, these comments were seen as “insulting” by Chinese officials and that local organizers were moving to excite local companies from the purchase of H20.

A report issued by Information on Friday He said that NVIDIA had asked some of the components suppliers to stop production related to H20 graphics processing units.

The shares of the company decreased by 1.34 % in pre -market trading at 5:53 am EST

– Dylan Pots of CNBC contributed to this report.