A Pivotal Decision for Nvidia Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) announced it had secured U.S. government approval to resume sales of its H20 artificial intelligence (AI) chips to China, which could propel the chipmaker’s financial trajectory forward on its path to a potential $20 trillion market valuation.

Data center operators in China, which use Nvidia’s H20 chips to crunch data for various AI services, have been struggling to find a local alternative that is as good as the U.S. company’s chips.

NVIDIA's upcoming China-specific B30 AI GPU has estimated 75% of the performance of H20, with demand for B30 'significant' and orders already placed.

In April 2025, the U.S. expanded restrictions to include the Nvidia H20 chip, a China-specific version designed to comply with earlier export rules.

China plans to build 39 AI data centers using over 115,000 restricted Nvidia GPUs, with 70% going to a massive site in Xinjiang, potentially defying U.S. export bans and raising concerns over sourcing.

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