Nvidia chief Jensen Huang flies to Beijing for talks

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The CEO of Nvidia Jensen Huang visited Beijing on Thursday after new restrictions from Washington on China’s sales in the American chips maker.

According to two people familiar with his travel schedule, Huang met to NVIDIA customers, including Deepseek, the founder of Deepseek, to discuss new chips for Chinese customers.

Then he held separate talks with the Chinese deputy who was Living, according to one person who is familiar with the meeting.

“China was a very important market for NVIDIA” and expressed his hope that his company will continue to cooperate “with the country, according to state broadcaster CCTV.

On Tuesday, NVIDIA said it expects to reach $ 5.5 billion in profits from the new US export restrictions on the H20 chip, a low -energy model that has already been designed to comply with Joe Biden controls that limit exports to China.

HUANG talks indicate that NVIDIA is not ready to give up the Chinese market and is considering designing another chip designed for the market, although its previous efforts have been banned by Washington.

Plans have been completed to visit the NVIDIA president to Beijing after US President Donald Trump moved to ban the H20 chip.

The group reported sales of $ 17 billion from China last year, but it faced increasing threats to its business from Beijing even before Trump mediated.

On previous trips to China, Huang has moved away from well -known meetings with high -ranking officials.

According to a person familiar with the matter, Huang’s recent visit to China came shortly after the State Council agreed to request a meeting from NVIDIA earlier this week.

One of them, the founder of Dibsic Liang Winfing in Beijing, said two people are familiar with the trip, to discuss how to design the next generation chips for China that meet the needs of the customer and organizational requirements for both the United States and China.

Dibsic, a NVIDIA customer, in January on charges of US technology shares when he unveiled the Amnesty International Competitive Model, has been a similar performance to his American competitors, but he appears to be trained in a small part of the cost.

NVIDIA’s efforts to maintain its sales in China are forced to prepare for the United States amid Trump’s escalating trade war.

The White House applied an additional 145 percent tariff to imports from China, which is the level of Beijing in revenge.

China has pushed to build a semiconductor industry and directed local technology companies to buy a Huawei AI chip. The Chinese technology champion is working to address the difficulties in using the AI ​​AI chip for typical training, which left local companies dependent on NVIDIA.

Huang Hewya was described as the Chinese “most enlarged technology companies”.

NVIDIA faced organizational audit in Washington and Beijing. The anti -monopoly organizer in China announced in December that it was investigating the company and reviewing whether it had violated the obligations that were subjected to Beijing when seeking approval to purchase an Israeli network company.

The journey comes at a time when American lawmakers are demanding information from NVIDIA about whether Deepseek is able to get export control chips.

NVIDIA refused to comment on the Huang trip.