The Donald Trump administration in the United States has decided to ban exports to China of Nvidia's latest low-spec artificial intelligence (AI) chips.
According to reports from Reuters and The Information on the 6th (local time), the White House notified other U.S. federal agencies that it would not allow exports to China of Nvidia's new AI chip "B30A," a version of Blackwell developed with reduced performance. The B30A is the successor to the H20 and is a newly developed AI chip aimed at the Chinese market. Equipped with the Blackwell B200 graphics processing unit (GPU), its servers have higher performance than servers based on the H100 transfer generation.
The United States is restricting exports out of concern that the supply of Nvidia's chips, including Blackwell, to China could undermine its technological edge. Nvidia is reportedly modifying the B30A chip design while hoping the Trump administration will reconsider its position. Jensen Huang, Nvidia's chief executive officer (CEO), also carried out lobbying last month to allow exports of the B30A chip to China ahead of a summit between President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
A Nvidia Spokesperson said, "We have a 0% share in China's high-performance data center market, and we do not include the Chinese market in our outlook."
Meanwhile, the Chinese government on the 6th announced guidelines requiring all new data center projects funded by state money to use only Chinese-made chips. Nvidia is facing dual supply restrictions from the U.S. and Chinese governments.