Huang Renxun: "We hope to supply more advanced chips to China!"

On August 21, the South Korean media "Today's Finance" published an article stating that Huang Renxun, CEO of NVIDIA, said regarding the resumption of sales of the "H20 chip" which was prohibited from export due to U.S. restrictions, "We hope to supply more advanced chips to China."

Recently, Huang Renxun told reporters, "The H20 is still surprisingly good now, but in the next few years, anything that is allowed to be sold in China, we will sell it."

Huang Renxun previously met with U.S. President Donald Trump, and the specific content of their meeting has not been disclosed, but relaxing the export restrictions on the H20 chip seems to have been one of the important topics. It is known that Huang Renxun once told President Trump that if U.S. companies want to dominate in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), they should be able to freely sell their technologies globally. Recently, Huang Renxun visited Beijing, China, and personally announced that the U.S. government had approved the sale of H20 chips to China. According to assessments, his persuasion had a decisive impact on the policy change.

Huang Renxun said, "The U.S. government is currently processing export license procedures for orders from Chinese customers, and I have not yet met the customers." According to Reuters, large Chinese technology companies such as ByteDance and Tencent are applying for related products. In this process, NVIDIA will create a list of potential buyers "white list" and submit it to the U.S. government, and finally get approval.

The H20 chip is a product specially developed by NVIDIA to comply with U.S. semiconductor export controls on China. The latest high-performance AI chips H100 and H200 have been banned from export to China, but the design specifications of the H20 are lower, allowing it to be legally supplied to the Chinese market.

However, in April this year, the Trump administration banned the export of H20 chips to China, resulting in losses of billions of dollars for NVIDIA.

Original: www.toutiao.com/article/1841050960012291/

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