Nvidia’s CEO, Jensen Huang, stated on Friday that there are “no active discussions” about selling the company’s advanced Blackwell chips to China. The Trump administration has prevented the sale of Blackwell, Nvidia’s top artificial intelligence chip, to China. The U.S. government fears these chips could help China’s military and its AI industry.
Last week, there was talk that U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping might agree in South Korea to allow a less powerful version of the Blackwell chip to be sold in China. However, no such agreement has materialized so far.
“Currently, we are not planning to ship anything to China,” Huang said shortly after arriving in Tainan for his fourth public visit to Taiwan this year. He added, “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.”
The U.S. has permitted Nvidia to sell its H20 chip in China. Yet, over the past month, Huang has repeatedly said that China does not want Nvidia in the country. As a result, Nvidia’s share of the advanced AI chip market in China is currently zero.
Taiwan’s Formosa TV News network broadcast Huang live, as he explained that he had been in Taiwan for a day and a half. He planned to visit TSMC, a long-time partner, and attend the company’s sports day.
“Business is very strong,” he said. “So I came back to encourage my TSMC friends.”
When asked about Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s plan to build a chip factory, Huang noted that creating advanced semiconductor manufacturing facilities like TSMC’s is extremely difficult. However, he stressed that “it’s a very important technology, and the demand is extremely high.”
Huang also clarified some recent comments that a Financial Times report quoted, suggesting that China would win the AI race. “That’s not what I said,” Huang explained. “What I said was that China has very good AI technology. They have many AI researchers.”
He pointed out that 50% of the world’s AI researchers are in China, and many popular open-source AI models also come from there. “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.”
