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CEO Huang aims to increase H20 chip supply for China

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H20 chip sales resume after US-China export talks

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Nvidia ( NVDA ) also developing RTX Pro GPU for Chinese market

(Updates with video.)

By Che Pan and Casey Hall

BEIJING/SHANGHAI, July 16 (Reuters) - Nvidia ( NVDA )

will ramp up supply of Chinese-compliant H20 chips in the coming

months and look to bring more advanced semiconductors to the

world's second-largest technology market, Chief Executive Jensen

Huang said at an event in Beijing.

Huang's remarks came after the world's most valuable company

said it planned to resume sales of the H20 artificial

intelligence chip to China, a move U.S. Commerce Secretary

Howard Lutnick said was part of negotiations on rare earths.

"H20 was released from its ban, the memory bandwidth is

extremely good, for LLMs and other new models it will be

excellent," Huang said.

"I hope to get more advanced chips into China. Today H20 is

still incredibly good, but in coming years, whatever we are

allowed to sell to China we will do so."

The planned resumption is a reversal of an export

restriction imposed in April over U.S. national security

concerns.

Huang has said that U.S. tech giant Nvidia's ( NVDA ) leadership

position could slip without sales to China, where developers

were being courted by Huawei Technologies with chips

produced in China.

His comments come days after he met with U.S. President

Donald Trump, as Nvidia ( NVDA ) walks a tightrope between the world's

two biggest economies, both vying for dominance in AI and other

cutting-edge technologies.

Huang told media on the sidelines of the supply chain expo

in Beijing that licenses for Chinese orders would be approved

swiftly, noting: "There are many order books already in."

Orders from Chinese companies for H20 chips need to be sent

by Nvidia ( NVDA ) to the U.S. government for approval.

NEW CHIP

Sources said internet giants ByteDance and Tencent ( TCTZF ) were in

the process of submitting applications. ByteDance denied it was

submitting applications while Tencent ( TCTZF ) did not respond to a

request for comment.

Nvidia ( NVDA ) has also announced it is developing a new chip for

Chinese clients called the RTX Pro GPU, that would also be

compliant with U.S. export restrictions.

Huang said the new chip would be designed specifically for

smart factories and for robot training purposes.

"Here in China, because there's so much robotics innovation

going on, and so much smart factory work being done here, and

the supply chain is so vast, RTX Pro is perfect," Huang said.

At the expo opening, he described AI models from Chinese

firms Deepseek, Alibaba ( BABA ) and Tencent ( TCTZF ) as

"world class" and said AI was "revolutionising" supply chains.