NVIDIA looking to halt H20 chip production
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Huang made the comments during a visit to Taiwan on Friday, where he had meetings scheduled with top executives from foundry TSMC.
Nvidia has reportedly halted production of its H20 AI chip following pressure from Beijing, which urged local companies to avoid using it. This decisi
Nvidia has reportedly suspended production of its China-focused H20 AI chip as Beijing pushes domestic alternatives and analysts warn the uncertainty could hit its Q3 outlook.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stated that AI will progress regardless of US support, referencing the Trump administration's approval for Nvidia to sell a key AI chip to China.
On August 11, 2025, US President Donald Trump announced that Nvidia's H20 chips were approved for shipment to China. Before this, at the end of July 2025, reports indicated that Nvidia had placed an order with TSMC for 300,
Samsung reportedly offered NVIDIA its 12-layer HBM3E memory at 20-30% cheaper than SK hynix for use on its made-for-China H20 AI GPU.
Nvidia is reportedly preparing two China-specific Blackwell accelerators — the B30A for AI training and the RTX 6000D for inference — that will outperform the HGX H20 and L20 PCIe while staying within U.