Nvidia Working on New AI Chip for China That's 'Superior' to Current One

But Sources Add US Regulatory Approval Far From Guaranteed Amid Fears in Washington

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BEIJING/SINGAPORE - Nvidia is developing a new artificial intelligence (AI) chip for China based on its latest Blackwell architecture that will be more powerful than the H20 model it is currently allowed to sell in the country, two people briefed on the matter said.

US President Donald Trump last week opened the door to the possibility of more advanced Nvidia chips being sold in China.

But the sources noted that US regulatory approval is far from guaranteed amid deep-seated fears in Washington about giving China too much access to American AI technology.

The new chip, tentatively known as the B30A, will use a single-die design that is likely to deliver half the raw computing power of the more sophisticated dual-die configuration in Nvidia's flagship B300 accelerator card, the sources said.

A single-die design is when all the main parts of an integrated circuit are made on one continuous piece of silicon, rather than split across multiple dies.

The new chip would have high-bandwidth memory and Nvidia's NVLink technology for fast data transmission between processors, features that are also in the H20 - a chip based on the company's older Hopper architecture.