Nvidia CEO Says No Active Talks to Sell Blackwell AI Chips to China

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Nov 8, 2025 - 11:00 Updated: Nov 8, 2025 - 01:33
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Nvidia CEO Says No Active Talks to Sell Blackwell AI Chips to China

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Nov. 7 that the company has no “active discussions” about selling its advanced Blackwell artificial intelligence chips to China.

“Currently, we are not planning to ship anything to China,” Huang told reporters after arriving in the southern Taiwanese city of Tainan for his fourth public visit to the island this year.

“It’s up to China when they would like Nvidia products to go back to serve the Chinese market. I look forward to them changing their policy.”

Huang’s latest remarks follow his comments a week earlier in South Korea, when he expressed hope that Nvidia would eventually be able to sell its Blackwell chips in China but said there were “no plans to do so at the moment.”

Washington has tightened restrictions on advanced chip exports to China, aiming to slow Beijing’s development of military and artificial intelligence capabilities.

U.S. President Donald Trump has said he will not allow China or any other country to buy Nvidia’s most powerful chips, citing national security concerns.

“We will not let anybody have them other than the United States,” Trump said in an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes,” which aired on Nov. 2.
Speaking aboard Air Force One that same day, Trump said Nvidia’s Blackwell chip is “10 years ahead of every other chip,” adding, “No, we don’t give that chip to other people.”

Trump has said that restricting sales prevents China from gaining “an equal advantage” in the race to dominate artificial intelligence, a field he says the United States is currently winning.

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An Nvidia Blackwell GPU is displayed at COMPUTEX in Taipei, Taiwan, on June 4, 2024. Ann Wang/Reuters
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The United States first imposed export controls on high-end Nvidia chips in 2022 and expanded them in the following years. The Blackwell series, considered Nvidia’s most advanced line, is also covered by those restrictions.

Huang said last week that Nvidia has not applied for new export licenses to ship to China because, in his words, “China has made it clear it doesn’t want Nvidia in the market.”

Huang Clarifies China’s AI Comments

Huang’s remarks in Taiwan also sought to clarify a recent Financial Times report that quoted him as saying China would win the AI race.

“That’s not what I said,” Huang told reporters. “What I said was that China has very good AI technology. They have many AI researchers.”

He added that roughly half of the world’s AI researchers are based in China and that some of the most popular open-source AI models have come from Chinese developers.

“So they’re moving very, very fast,” he said. “The United States has to continue to move incredibly fast; otherwise, the world is very competitive, so we have to run fast.”

In a separate statement on Nov. 5, Huang said: “As I have long said, China is nanoseconds behind America in AI. It’s vital that America wins by racing ahead and winning developers worldwide.”

Huang was in Taiwan to visit long-time manufacturing partner Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) and to attend the chipmaker’s company sports day.

Nvidia relies heavily on TSMC to produce its most advanced processors, including the Blackwell line.

Trump–Xi Talks Touch on Semiconductors

Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping met on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Busan, South Korea, on Oct. 30.

Trump told reporters afterward that semiconductors were discussed during the meeting, adding that China would be “talking to Nvidia and others about taking chips.”

He stressed that the Blackwell line was not part of the conversation.

Huang, who also attended the APEC CEO summit in the South Korean city of Gyeongju, told reporters at the time that any future decision on sales to China would depend on Washington.
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“I hope so, but that’s a decision for President Trump to make,” he said.
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