Nvidia CEO says next chip after H20 for China won't be from Hopper series

Wen-Yee Lee

Updated Sat, May 17, 2025, 4:48 AM 1 min read

By Wen-Yee Lee

TAIPEI (Reuters) -Nvidia is evaluating however to code the China marketplace aft the U.S. authorities placed limits connected income of its Hopper H20 spot determination but volition not enactment retired different mentation from the Hopper series, CEO Jensen Huang said connected Saturday.

Asked what their adjacent spot for China aft the H20 was, helium said: "It's not Hopper due to the fact that it's not imaginable to modify Hopper anymore," Huang said, according to a livestream posted by Taiwan's Formosa TV News network.

Huang, who has consistently said China is captious to Nvidia's growth, made a sojourn to China instantly aft the U.S. placed caller restrictions connected China-bound shipments of its H20 chips, the lone AI spot the institution tin merchantability legally successful China.

Reuters reported earlier this period that Nvidia plans to merchandise a downgraded mentation of the H20 spot for China successful the adjacent 2 months, arsenic it seeks to prop up income successful the country, wherever it has mislaid marketplace stock to home rivals specified arsenic Huawei.

The U.S. Framework for Artificial Intelligence Diffusion, issued successful January conscionable a week earlier the extremity of erstwhile President Joe Biden’s administration, aimed to bounds AI spot exports to astir countries.

Huang besides said that erstwhile AI export regulations were incorrect and should person been focused connected maximising U.S. exertion globally.

Trump has said helium volition cancel the AI diffusion rules that were introduced by the Biden administration.