NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang has announced that the United States has granted a new license to resume sales of the H20 GPU in China. Even though it was developed specifically to comply with previous U.S. restrictions, the chip had been banned from export in April.
NVIDIA has begun the necessary administrative procedures and expects deliveries to begin imminently. Speaking from Beijing, Huang stressed the importance of the Chinese market and the key role played by local AI researchers.
The H20 chip is a watered-down version of the GH100, with 96 GB of HBM3 memory and 296 TFLOPS of computing power. It is limited in certain respects, notably multi-GPU connections and acceleration via Tensor cores.
At the same time, NVIDIA has announced a new, regulatory-compliant RTX Pro, aimed at the industrial and logistics sectors, without giving any further details for the moment.
