Nvidia CEO Confirms US Talks on ‘B30A’ Chip for China

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Aug 23, 2025 - 09:57 Updated: Aug 23, 2025 - 09:50
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Nvidia CEO Confirms US Talks on ‘B30A’ Chip for China
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has said a China-specific AI chip is under U.S. review as the firm defends H20 sales amid Beijing’s security probe.

Huang said Aug. 22 the company is in talks with the Trump administration about a potential follow-on chip for China while visiting Taiwan to meet manufacturing partner TSMC.
Nvidia, for its part, says Washington has assured the company that licenses for H20 shipments to China will be granted and that it expects to resume those sales.
Responding to questions regarding a possible “B30A” chip for China’s AI data centers, Huang told reporters during his visit to Taipei, “I’m offering a new product to China for AI data centers, the follow-on to H20.”
The B30A is a China-specific version of Nvidia’s Blackwell-based B300 series, operating at about half the performance of the standard B300 to comply with U.S. export restrictions, Reuters reported.

“That’s not our decision to make. It’s up to, of course, the United States government. And we’re in dialogue with them, but it’s too soon to know.”

Nvidia has not published specifications for any such product, and no U.S. government decision has been announced.

Huang also addressed China’s scrutiny of the cybersecurity of the H20, which U.S. authorities placed under a licensing regime earlier this year.

He also told reporters said Nvidia has “made very clear” that “the H20 chip has no security backdoor access,” and that the company is engaging with Beijing to resolve regulators’ questions.

China’s Cyberspace Administration formally disclosed on Jul. 31 that it had interviewed Nvidia regarding alleged “serious security issues,” citing claims about “tracking and location” and “remote shutdown” capabilities, and requested documentation.
Earlier in April, Nvidia disclosed that the U.S. government informed the company that a license is required for export of H20 products into the Chinese market.
The company recorded a related charge and subsequently said in a July 14 corporate blog post that the U.S. government had assured licenses would be granted and that Nvidia “hopes to start deliveries soon.”

U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has publicly emphasized a strategy of restricting China to lower-tier chips.

Huang’s Taiwan stop centered on coordination with TSMC, where he said Nvidia is working on six new chips, including a CPU, a GPU, and NVLink switch devices—and that “all of these chips are now in TSMC’s fabs.”

He added gratitude to the U.S. administration for enabling H20 sales to resume and reiterated that Nvidia is working with Chinese authorities to address security concerns.

Any B30A-type product for China would require U.S. licensing and would come on top of H20 shipments if approved.

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