NVIDIA To Resume H20 AI Chip Sales To China
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The Trump administration's decision to allow Nvidia's H20 chips back into China has triggered a surge of urgent orders from major Chinese cloud providers, reviving not only Nvidia's outlook but also lifting sentiment across the AI semiconductor ecosystem.
NVIDIA's upcoming China-specific B30 AI GPU has estimated 75% of the performance of H20, with demand for B30 'significant' and orders already placed.
In April 2025, the U.S. expanded restrictions to include the Nvidia H20 chip, a China-specific version designed to comply with earlier export rules.
Amid rising doubts over China's AI trajectory, two setbacks have rattled its startup ecosystem: Manus, the buzzed-about AI agent startup, is reportedly exiting the Chinese market, while DeepSeek R2 — a trillion-parameter large language model — is facing a critical GPU shortfall.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s comments and news of the resumption of H20 chip sales to China have excited Wall Street.