Jensen Huang reiterated Nvidia’s compliance with U.S. export controls on high-end Nvidia chips.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Nov. 7 that the company has no “active discussions” about selling its advanced Blackwell artificial intelligence chips to China.
“Currently, we are not planning to ship anything to China,” Huang told reporters after arriving in the southern Taiwanese city of Tainan for his fourth public visit to the island this year.
“It’s up to China when they would like Nvidia products to go back to serve the Chinese market. I look forward to them changing their policy.”
Huang’s latest remarks follow his comments a week earlier in South Korea, when he expressed hope that Nvidia would eventually be able to sell its Blackwell chips in China but said there were “no plans to do so at the moment.”
Washington has tightened restrictions on advanced chip exports to China, aiming to slow Beijing’s development of military and artificial intelligence capabilities.
U.S. President Donald Trump has said he will not allow China or any other country to buy Nvidia’s most powerful chips, citing national security concerns.
“We will not let anybody have them other than the United States,” Trump said in an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes,” which aired on Nov. 2.
Speaking aboard Air Force One that same day, Trump said Nvidia’s Blackwell chip is “10 years ahead of every other chip,” adding, “No, we don’t give that chip to other people.”
Trump has said that restricting sales prevents China from gaining “an equal advantage” in the race to dominate artificial intelligence, a field he says the United States is currently winning.
The United States first imposed export controls on high-end Nvidia chips in 2022 and expanded them in the following years. The Blackwell series, considered Nvidia’s most advanced line, is also covered by those restrictions.
Huang said last week that Nvidia has not applied for new export licenses to ship to China because, in his words, “China has made it clear it doesn’t want Nvidia in the market.”
