Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang says China’s fast‑growing open‑source AI market is helping drive the worldwide boom in the technology and that his company

Nvidia plans to increase the supply of its H20 chips to China, aiming to strengthen its position in the lucrative Chinese technology market. This move follows the lifting of an export ban and comes as Nvidia navigates US-China trade tensions.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang described artificial intelligence models from Chinese firms Deepseek, Alibaba and Tencent as "world class" and said AI was "revolutionising" supply chains, at an exhibition in Beijing on Wednesday.

Data center operators in China, which use Nvidia’s H20 chips to crunch data for various AI services, have been struggling to find a local alternative that is as good as the U.S. company’s chips.

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.

China plans to build 39 AI data centers using over 115,000 restricted Nvidia GPUs, with 70% going to a massive site in Xinjiang, potentially defying U.S. export bans and raising concerns over sourcing.

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