Nvidia CEO says no ‘active discussions’ on selling Blackwell chip to China

By Wen-Yee Lee

Taipei (Reuters) -Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on Friday that there were “​no active discussions” about selling the company’s state-of-‌the-art Blackwell chips to China.

Blackwell is Nvidia’s current flagship artificial intelligence chip that ‌the Trump administration has so far prevented from being sold to China, for fear it would aid the Chinese military and domestic AI industry.

While there was speculation last week that talks between U.S. ⁠President Donald Trump and Chinese ‌President Xi Jinping in South Korea could end with a deal to allow a scaled-down version of the ‍Blackwell to be sold in China, so far there have been no signs of an agreement.

“Currently, we are not planning to ship anything to ​China,” Huang said, soon after arriving in the city ‌of Tainan for his fourth public visit to Taiwan this year.

“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,” he added.

The U.S. has allowed Nvidia ⁠to sell its H20 chip in China,​ but Huang has repeatedly said over ​the past month that China does not want Nvidia in the country, so its market share of the advanced ‍AI chip market is ⁠zero.

Huang, in remarks seen on a live broadcast by Taiwan’s Formosa TV News network, also said he was in ⁠Taiwan to visit long-time partner TSMC and participate in the company’s sports ‌day.

(Reporting by Wen-Yee Lee in Taipei; Editing ‌by Jacqueline Wong and Thomas Derpinghaus)