Jensen Huang, co-founder and CEO of Nvidia Corp., speaks during a news conference on May 21, 2025.
Nvidia said Tuesday that it hopes to resume sales of its H20 general processing units to China, in a major win for the company that has suffered from U.S. export curbs.
Nvidia's sales of the H20 AI chips, which had been designed specifically to keep them out of export controls on China, were halted in April.
"The U.S. government has assured NVIDIA that licenses will be granted, and NVIDIA hopes to start deliveries soon," the company said in a statement.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang in recent months has ramped up his lobbying against export controls, arguing that they inhibited American tech leadership. In May, Huang said chip restrictions had already cut Nvidia's China market share nearly in half.
The potential change in U.S. stance follows a meeting between Huang and U.S. President Donald Trump last week. During the talks, Huang had reaffirmed Nvidia's support for the administration's job creation and onshoring efforts, as well as the aim for America to lead in global AI, the company said.
Washington and Beijing last month agreed to a preliminary trade framework that allowed relaxing rare-earth export controls by China and easing of tech export curbs by the U.S.
Huang also announced a new "fully compliant" GPU — RTX PRO — saying it was ideal for smart factories and logistics. It was not clear if the reference was to the GPU being compliant with guidelines for exports to China.
Since May, reports had indicated that Nvidia was working on a new AI chip for the China market, which would be less advanced than the H20.
However, the potential resumption of H20 chips to China comes as a surprise, Ray Wang, research director of semiconductors, supply chain and emerging technology at Futurum Group, told CNBC.
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