Provided by Ben Blanchard and Wen-Yee Lee
Taipei (Reuters) -Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang came to Taipei on Friday to visit Chip Foundry Partner TSMC because the world’s most valuable company browsing the growing friction between Washington and Beijing because of access to his industrial leaders AI chips.
His visit, just a few days before NVIDIA’s earnings on Wednesday, it turns out when the company asked some of its suppliers to stop the work related to the H20 chip, after Beijing’s caution due to Chip’s security risk and, as it creates a new AI chip, adapted to the Chinese market.
“My main goal here is to visit TSMC,” he told reporters, adding that he would only stay for a few hours and leave after dinner with TSMC leaders, the direct feed in the Songshan airport, where he landed on a private jet.
He also said that TSMC asked him to say speech. The TSMC said in a statement that Huang would give an inner speech about his “management philosophy”. It was not detailed.
Huang said they came to thank the TSMC, where they released six completely new chips, including a new GPU and Silicon Photonics processor for NVIDIA’s next-generation Rubin-Architcture supercar. The tape tape means the end of the chip design to start making.
“This is the first architecture in our history when every chip is new and revolutionary,” he said. “We’ve released all the tokens.”
Earlier this month, US President Donald Trump opened its doors to improve Nvidia chips except the H20 sold in China and concluded an agreement with the NVIDIA and AMD, which would receive 15% of the sales of some advanced chips in China.
This week, Reuters announced that NVIDIA has been working on a new chip, temporarily called B30A, based on the latest Blackwell architecture, which will be more powerful than the H20 model.
When asked about the B30A, Huang said NVIDIA is negotiating with the US for a proposal to China for its H20 chip, but this was not the company’s decision.
“Of course, this is the US government and we are in the dialogue with them, but it is too early to know.” He said.
NVIDIA received only permission to deliver H20 in July. It was created specifically for China after 2023. Export restrictions were set, but the company was suddenly obliged to stop sales in April.
Shortly after Washington’s Greenlight, NVIDIA has placed 300,000 H20 chips with TSMC orders to include high demand for Chinese companies in its current inventory, Reuters said. However, NVIDIA has been hit by the Chinese cyber space regulatory authorities and state media suspicions that US companies may be at risk for security.