Nvidia in negotiations with us about selling more advanced chips in China: Huang

Nvidia Negotiations with the US government on delivering a new, more advanced chip to China, CEO Jensen Juan said on Friday.

Earlier this week Reuters It is reported that the American giant is developing a new artificial intelligence chip for China, called B30A, which will be more powerful than H20 – the only semiconductor Nvidia can sell in the country now. In the last few years, the United States has been concerned that Chinese military applications could be used by advanced American chips.

The journalist asked Juan about B30A while traveling to Taiwan.

“By offering a new data center in China, the AI ​​data centers next to the H20 is not our decision to make. This is of course the US government. And we are in dialogue with them. But it is too fast,” Juan said.

Last month, said Juan He hopes Nvidia can sell more advanced chips in China than H20 while visiting the country.

Nvidia’s position in China has become a headache for Juan. The company has created a special, less conducted chip for China called H20, which this year’s US government Restricted on export. In July, Nvidia said she gave permission to sell this chip again in China. Later it turned out that Nvidia will give 15% of its Chinese US Government Government In exchange for export licenses.

Just as it turned out that Nvidia returned to China, it got into other checkpoints, and this month, Chinese authorities have caused concern about the potential safety vulnerabilities in the campaign. Nvidia – Note In its products are built into them built -in “switches and rear parts”.

Several reports this month suggested that the Chinese government called on local companies Don’t use Nvidia chips.

Juan claimed that Nvidia should be allowed to sell chips in China so that the II country is built on American technology and domestic technological giants as Huawei don’t fill the void.

This message seemed to be in Washington. In July, when H20 was approved for exports, US Trade Secretary Howard Lutnut said CNBC that this step was allowed because Nvidia would not give its best technologies.

“We do not sell them our best things, not the second best things, not even the best better,” Lutnik said.

Though Reported about Financial Times On Thursday, these comments were perceived as “offensive” Chinese officials and that local regulators move to the discourage of domestic firms from buying H20.

Report from Information on Friday He said Nvidia asked some components suppliers to stop production related to H20 graphic units.

Company shares fell by 1.34% at 5:53 am et

. Dylan Bats CNBC contributed to this report.