Nvidia H20 chip exports hit with license requirement by US government
Semiconductor Giant Nvidia is confronted with unexpected new US export checks on its H20 chips.
In a Tuesday TuesdayNvidia said it was informed by the US government that she needs a license to export his H20 AI chips to China. This license will be required indefinitely, according to the submission – the US government called ‘the risk that the [H20] Can be used in […] A super computer in China. “
NVIDIA anticipates $ 5.5 billion in related costs in the Q1 2026 Fiscal Year, which ends on 27 April. The shares of the company fell by approximately 6% in long -term trade.
The H20 is the most advanced AI -Chip Nvidia can export to China under the current and earlier export rules of the US. Last week, NPR Reported that CEO Jensen Huang might have expressed himself out of new H20 restrictions during a dinner in the Mar-A-Lago resort by President Donald Trump, partly by arguing that Nvidia would invest in AI-data centers in the US
Perhaps non-so-not-very-inventor, Nvidia announced on Monday that it would spend hundreds of millions of dollars in the coming four years Pundits Were quickly that the dedication of the company was light on the details.
Several government officials had called for stronger export controls on the H20 because the chip is said to be used to train models of the AI Startup Deepseek, including the R1 “Reasoning model”, which threw the American AI market for a loop in January.
Nvidia refused to comment.
