NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang Visits Taiwan Amid U.S.-China Tensions

NVIDIA’s Chief Executive Jensen Huang has arrived in Taipei. On Friday, August 22, he met with Taiwan’s semiconductor giant TSMC. His visit is gaining significance amid growing tensions between the United States and China over artificial intelligence chips.

Recently, NVIDIA instructed some of its suppliers to halt work related to the H20 chip, following Beijing’s concerns over its security. At the same time, the company is advancing work on a new, customized AI chip for China.

At Taipei’s Songshan Airport, Huang told reporters, “My main purpose is to visit TSMC. I will stay for a few hours and return after dinner.”

TSMC said in a statement that Huang will give an internal talk to their employees, sharing his “management philosophy.”

Huang also revealed that six new chips for NVIDIA’s next-generation supercomputer have been taped out at TSMC, including new GPUs and silicon photonics processors. “This is the first architecture in our history where every chip is completely new and revolutionary,” he said.

Meanwhile, U.S. President Donald Trump recently hinted that the next advanced H20 chip could potentially be sold in China. According to an agreement with NVIDIA and AMD, 15% of any revenue from selling certain advanced chips in China would go to the U.S. government.

Reuters reported that NVIDIA is now working on a new chip named “B30A,” built on the latest Blackwell architecture and expected to be more powerful than the H20.

However, it is not yet decided whether this chip will be sold in China. Huang stated, “That is entirely up to the U.S. government. We are in discussions, but nothing is confirmed yet.”