Catenaa, Tuesday, August 19, 2025- Nvidia is developing a new AI chip for China based on its latest Blackwell architecture that will be more powerful than the H20 model it is currently allowed to sell.
US President Donald Trump last week opened the door to the possibility of more advanced Nvidia chips being sold in China.
Quoting sources, Reuters reported that US regulatory approval is far from guaranteed amid deep-seated fears in Washington about giving China too much access to US artificial intelligence technology.
The new chip, tentatively known as the B30A, will use a single-die design that is likely to deliver half the raw computing power of the more sophisticated dual-die configuration in Nvidia’s flagship B300 accelerator card, the Reuters report said.
A single-die design is when all the main parts of an integrated circuit are made on one continuous piece of silicon rather than split across multiple dies.
The new chip would have high-bandwidth memory and Nvidia’s NVLink technology for fast data transmission between processors, features that are also in the H20, a chip based on the company’s older Hopper architecture.
The chip’s specifications are not completely finalised, but Nvidia hopes to deliver samples to Chinese clients for testing as early as next month, said the sources to Reuters.
Nvidia said in a statement: “We evaluate a variety of products for our roadmap, so that we can be prepared to compete to the extent that governments allow.”
“Everything we offer is with the full approval of the applicable authorities and designed solely for beneficial commercial use,” it said.
Trump said last week he might allow Nvidia to sell a scaled-down version of its next-generation chip in China after announcing an unprecedented deal that will see Nvidia and rival AMD give the US government 15% of revenue from sales of some advanced chips in China.
A new Nvidia chip for China might have “30% to 50% off”, he suggested in an apparent reference to the chip’s computing power, adding that the H20 was “obsolete”.
Nvidia Stocks were down by 0.2% on Tuesday Morning.
