BANGKOK (AP) \u2014 Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Friday that the company is discussing a potential new computer chip designed for China with the Trump administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Huang was asked about a possible \u201cB30A\u201d semiconductor for artificial intelligence data centers for China while on a visit to Taiwan, where he was meeting Nvidia\u2019s key manufacturing partner, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp., the world\u2019s largest chip maker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI\u2019m offering a new product to China for … AI data centers, the follow-on to H20,\u201d Huang said. But he added that \u201cThat\u2019s not our decision to make. It\u2019s up to, of course, the United States government. And we\u2019re in dialogue with them, but it\u2019s too soon to know.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Such chips are graphics processing units, or GPUs, a type of device<\/a> used to build and update a range of AI systems. But they are less powerful than Nvidia\u2019s top semiconductors<\/a> today, which cannot be sold to China due to U.S. national security restrictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The B30A, based on California-based Nvidia\u2019s specialized Blackwell technology, is reported to operate at about half the speed of Nvidia\u2019s main B300 chips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Huang praised the the Trump administration for recently approving sales of Nvidia\u2019s H20 chips<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n