Jensen Huang, NVIDIA CEO, was in Taiwan recently visiting TSMC’s fab there. He spent some time with reporters, according to Wccftech, who had questions for him regarding the Trump administration granting licenses to his company and AMD to export H20 GPU chips to China.
Why NVIDIA’s CEO created the H20 GPUs amid Trump’s trade restrictions
For years, China has had to source the chips and technology it needs to scale AI advancement in the country locally. The available chips had failed to provide sufficient capability or advancement to help them compete in the AI market. You can then get the noise that trailed DeepSeek launching an AI model recently. It was unprecedented.
NVIDIA makes some of the advanced chips that power the tech behind AI, such as those that run large language models. The U.S. government, however, had banned the export of such chips to China for national security reasons. NVIDIA created the H20 GPUs in response to addressing the concerns of the Trump administration, according to the NVIDIA CEO.
What are the H20 GPUs that Trump granted an export license for?
The H20 GPUs are NVIDIA’s chips designed specifically for the Chinese market. They are alternatives to the more high-end chips like the H100. However, they can use them in other markets.
With these chips produced, the Trump administration has now granted permission to ship them to China. The Chinese, however, also had their concerns about some “security backdoor” in the chips.
NVIDIA CEO on his conversation with Trump and the Chinese Government
In the video below, Huang addressed these two issues: the new export license and China’s “security backdoor” concerns. First, he said that he was “very grateful that the Trump administration has approved licenses for us to export H20s to China.” And then segue into those concerns about “security backdoors.” He said the Chinese Government asked him if there were any. His response to them he said was to make “… very clear and put to rest that H20 has no security backdoors.”
No doubt a security backdoor to chips of any class would be of serious concern to any country. In fact, that is the US government’s rancor with the Chinese government. It claims that Huawei, a Chinese company, grants backdoor access to its technology for the Chinese government to spy on U.S. citizens
However, the reporters wanted to know what the NVIDIA CEO said to President Trump to make him change his mind. Huang said that he didn’t provide any advice, according to the source for this article. He did, however, impress the “importance of the American AI tech stack” on the president.
Allowing U.S. tech companies to export their technology puts the country at a leading advantage. Banning the export of such an asset may delay it in the short run, but those advancements will come eventually. This much Huang said he pointed out to the president. He told reporters that he told Trump that “AI is going to advance around the world with or without the United States. And it is important for us to maximize our AI export technology at a time when this industry is being formed.”
TSMC is building new NVIDIA Rubin chips
While reporters may have pressed the NVIDIA CEO about the H20 GPUs and Trump’s lifting of export sanctions to China, he made them know why he was in Taiwan. He said he was there to see how work at TSMC is progressing on NVIDIA’s new Rubin Chips.
The Rubin Chips are NVIDIA’s newest chips for powering AI technology. In the video above, you can hear him talk about the chip. That report expects these chips to hit the market around 2026–2027.
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