Nvidia plans more powerful chip for China after Trump approves H20 export, sources say
US President Donald Trump last week opened the door to
the possibility of more advanced Nvidia chips being sold in China, but the sources noted US regulatory approval was far from guaranteed amid deep-seated fears in Washington about giving China too much access to US AI technology.
The new chip, tentatively known as the B30A, would use a single-die design that was likely to deliver half the raw computing power of the more sophisticated dual-die configuration in Nvidia's flagship B300 accelerator card, the sources 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.
US President Donald Trump and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speak at the White House during an event in April. /TNS
The chip's specifications were not completely finalised, but Nvidia hoped to deliver samples to Chinese clients for testing as early as next month, said the sources, who were not authorised to speak to the media and declined to be identified.
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