Nvidia is restarting production of China AI chip variant, says CEO Jensen Huang
The company had reportedly halted the manufacturing of its H200 chip last year because of increasing regulatory hurdles in the US and China
Nvidia is restarting the production of one of the company’s chips that is designed to comply with US export restrictions on China, CEO Jensen Huang said at a press conference on Tuesday.
The company had halted manufacturing last year of its H200 chip, which is based on its ageing Hopper technology, because of increasing regulatory hurdles in the US and China, according to a report at the time.
Since then, Nvidia has received licences to export the H200 from the US government and has taken orders, Huang said. This led Nvidia to begin restarting its manufacturing several weeks ago.
“Our supply chain is getting fired up,” Huang said.
The China chip sales are not included in the forecast for more than US$1 trillion in revenue that Huang made for the company’s Blackwell and Rubin AI chips by the end of 2027.
Blackwell and Rubin are Nvidia’s flagship AI chips and are capable of building the large language models that underpin chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT.