Nvidia CEO in Taipei to visit TSMC, says in talks with US over new China chip
By Blanchard and Wen-Yee Lee
Taipei (Reuters) -nvidia CEO Jensen Huang came to Taipei on Friday to visit the Chip Foundry partner TSMC due to the increasing friction friction in the world’s most valuable company, Washington and Beijing.
Just a few days before NVIDIA’s release of earnings on Wednesday, his visit to some of the company’s suppliers on Beijing’s attention on the security risks of Beijing and wants to stop the H20 chip as he developed a special AI chip for the Chinese market.
According to Taipei’s live broadcast of a special jet of local media in Songshan Airport, he told reporters, “My main goal is to visit TSMC,” he said.
He also said he wanted TSMC to make a speech. TSMC said in a statement that Huang will make an internal speech about the “Philosophy of Management”. It wasn’t detailed.
Huang said that NVIDIA thanked TSMC for their six-new chipset bands, including a new GPU and silicon photonics for the new generation of Rubin-architecture super computers. The tape output refers to the conclusion of a chip design for the start of production.
“This is the first architecture in which each chip is new and revolutionary in our history.” “We banded all the chips.”
At the beginning of this month, US President Donald Trump opened the door to the possibility of more advanced Nvidia chips, beyond the H20 sold in China, and reached an agreement that the US government would receive 15% of the income from some advanced receipts in China.
This week, Reuters reported that NVIDIA was working on a new chip called B30A based on the latest Blackwell architecture, which will be stronger than the H20.
Asked about the B30A, Huang said that Nvidia was in talks about presenting a successor to the United States and China to the H20 chip, but it was not a decision of the company.
“Of course, we are in dialogue with the US government and them, but it’s too early to know.” he said.
Nvidia only received permission to propose the sale of the H20 in July. In 2023, after export restrictions were implemented, it was developed especially for China, but the company was suddenly ordered to stop sales in April.
Reuters ordered 300,000 H20 chips with TSMC to add to the existing inventory due to strong demand from Chinese companies, shortly after Washington’s Greenlight. Nvidia, however, was shot with allegations that China’s cyber regulators and state media may pose security risks from the state media.
