This time the joy has lasted little to Nvidia. Finally, as we explained on July 15, the company directed by Jensen Huang has made the Department of Commerce review its regulation and allows you to sell The H20 GPU for artificial intelligence (AI) in China. “The US government has assured us that licenses will be granted. We hope to start deliveries soon,” Nvidia said in a statement.
The H20 chip is very important for Nvidia because it has opened the doors of the Chinese market again. The reception that Chinese companies initially gave to this GPU was very good despite the fact that the capacities of this chip are clearly lower than those of the other proposals for this company. In fact, the US Department of Commerce allowed its sale in China because this integrated circuit met the restrictions it had imposed. And despite their limitations their sales in China grew by 50% quarter to quarter since it reached this market in mid -2024.
The administration of the cyberspace of China is investigating Nvidia
Surprisingly this scenario has put Nvidia in trouble. And, once again, the reception of the H20 GPU in China is being so good that this American company has run out of units. According to Reuters, Nvidia has commissioned TSMC to manufacture no less than 300,000 units of this chip to respond to current demand from China. Blessed problem. However, the company’s engineers have been working in a new GPU with a state -of -the -art Blackwell MicroArquitectura that is intended to occupy in China the place of the H20 chip.
Cyberspace administration is the main Internet regulatory body in China
Anyway, everything is not going well for Nvidia. And it is that the administration of the cyberspace of China, usually known as CAC for its denomination in English (Cyberspace Administration of China), he has decided Thoroughly investigate the H20 GPU. This institution is the main Internet regulatory body in China. It is mainly responsible for the censorship and control of the contents published in the Network, the supervision of technology companies and compliance with the Data Security Law and the Personal Information Protection Law.
However, this is not at all the first time that the CAC makes noise in the West. And it is that on March 31, 2023 he launched an investigation that was intended to audit Micron Technology, the largest American memory chips. On this occasion the CAC has decided to investigate Nvidia because it suspects in the H20 chip could incorporate a back door of difficult location by the Chinese experts. If so, the possibility of China to use this GPU could be possible.
At the moment the CAC has limited himself to questioning those responsible for Nvidia in China and ask them to demonstrate that the H20 chip It does not represent a threat to interest and security from the country led by Xi Jinping. At the moment we do not have much more information, but presumably Nvidia will do everything in your hands to guarantee your survival in the Chinese market. After all, during the last fiscal year, which expired on January 26, 2025, China represented approximately 13% of the company of the company led by Jensen Huang with a figure of about 17,000 million dollars.
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