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The CEO of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, went to Beijing Thursday after new Washington borders on the sales in China of the American flea manufacturer sent his actions.
According to two people familiar with his travel schedule, Huang met Nvidia customers, including the founder of Generative artificial intelligence Deepseek start-up, to discuss new flea conceptions for Chinese customers.
He then had separate interviews with the Chinese vice-president, he Lifeng, according to a person familiar with the meeting.
Huang said that “China was a very important market for Nvidia” and expressed hope that his business could “continue to cooperate” with the country, according to the CCTV state broadcaster.
Tuesday, Nvidia said he expected a $ 5.5 billion for the profits from the new American export restrictions on his H20 chip, a low -power model that had already been designed to comply with the Joe Biden era limiting exports to China.
Huang's talks indicate that Nvidia is not willing to abandon the Chinese market and plans to design another chip designed for the market even if its previous efforts were prohibited by Washington.
The plans for the visit of the Nvidia chief in Beijing were finalized after the unexpected decision of US President Donald Trump to ban the H20 chip.
The group declared $ 17 billion in sales from China last year, but faced growing threats to its Beijing activities even before Trump intervened.
During previous trips to China, Huang moved away from meetings with high -level senior officials.
According to a person familiar with the issue, Huang's last visit to China came shortly after the Council of State accepted a request for a meeting of Nvidia earlier this week.
Huang met the founder of Deepseek Liang Wenfeng in Beijing, two people familiar with the trip said, to discuss the way of designing new generation fleas for China who would meet the needs of customers and the regulatory requirements of the United States and China.
Deepseek, an NVIDIA client in January, rocked American technological actions when he unveiled a competitive AI model that has achieved performance similar to that of American competitors but seemed to be trained in a fraction of the cost.
Nvidia’s efforts to keep its sales in China occur when the country has been forced to prepare to decline the United States in the midst of Trump's Trade War.
The White House applied additional 145% prices on imports from China, a level that Beijing equaled in retaliation.
China has prompted to develop its national semiconductor industry and ordered interior technology companies to buy the Huawei IA chip. The Chinese technology champion strives to resolve the difficulties of using his ASE chip for model training, which has left national companies dependent on Nvidia.
Huang called Huawei as “” the most formidable technology company “in Huawei”.
Nvidia was faced with a regulatory examination in Washington and Beijing. The regulator of the Chinese antitrust in December announced that it was surveying the company and examined if it had violated commitments made in Beijing when the purchase of an Israeli networking company.
The journey comes as the American legislators Demanding information of Nvidia on the question of whether Deepseek was able to obtain chips controlled by export.
Nvidia refused to comment on Huang's trip.
