by AFP Workers Writers
Taipei (AFP) Jan 29, 2026
Nvidia chief govt Jensen Huang expressed optimism Thursday that Beijing will allow the sale to Chinese language consumers of a strong AI chip mannequin made by the US tech big.
Huang’s remarks got here a day after the Wall Road Journal and others reported that Beijing had authorised a number of of Nvidia’s Chinese language clients to purchase the superior chip.
The chip in query — the H200 — can be utilized to coach and run cutting-edge synthetic intelligence programs.
It had been barred from sale in China by Washington over nationwide safety considerations, however final month President Donald Trump mentioned he had reached an settlement with China’s Xi Jinping to melt restrictions on the H200.
Nonetheless, there was uncertainty over whether or not the Chinese language authorities would really permit companies to purchase them, as a result of it has reportedly been encouraging Chinese language tech firms to make use of domestically made chips as a substitute.
“The precise licence for H200 is being finalised,” Huang advised reporters in Taipei.
“I am hoping… the Chinese language authorities would permit Nvidia to promote (the) H200, so that they must determine, and I am wanting ahead to a beneficial determination,” he mentioned.
“We’re wanting ahead to returning to China in order that we will compete available in the market. They’ve many very robust chip firms, and so now we have to compete fairly vigorously.”
With the USA and China locked in a fierce race for AI supremacy, Trump’s determination to permit H200 gross sales to China marked a major shift in US export coverage for AI chips.
The deal — underneath which the US authorities will get a 25-percent reduce of gross sales — was confirmed by the US commerce division on January 13.
Nvidia’s most top-of-the-range chips, the Blackwell sequence and forthcoming Rubin processors, weren’t included within the settlement.
The Wall Road Journal reported Wednesday that Chinese language tech firms, together with Alibaba and ByteDance, have been given the inexperienced gentle to obtain the primary batch of a number of hundred thousand H200 chips.
Extra imports have been anticipated to be authorized within the coming weeks, the newspaper mentioned, citing individuals aware of the matter.
ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent didn’t instantly reply to AFP’s request for remark.
The transfer got here throughout Huang’s current go to to China, which reportedly included stops in Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzhen.
It comes forward of Trump’s deliberate journey to Beijing in April for talks with Xi which are geared toward resolving commerce disputes.
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