The CEO of the American Chip Maker, Nvidia, went to Beijing on Thursday, a few days after the United States published new restrictions on sales of the only IA chip that it was still allowed to sell in China.
The surprise visit of Jensen Huang was at the invitation of a commercial organization, according to a social media account affiliated with state media.
The official broadcaster China Central Television said that Huang had met Ren Hongbin, the Chief of the Chinese Council for the Promotion of International Trade, where he said that he hoped to “continue to cooperate with China”.
China Daily, the official English -speaking point of sale from the communist party to power, published a photo of Huang in the capital, saying that the trip came “three months after being committed to continuing to cooperate with #china during her last visit”. He added the hashtag #opportunitychina, which he previously used in articles promoting American-Chinese exports.
The visit breaks a tumultuous week for Nvidia. The American restrictions, announced on Tuesday, apply to the expeditions of its GPU H20 Datacentre, a lower version of the other Nvidia chips, which was designed specifically to comply with the restrictions of the Biden era on China sales.
The American government, which fights against China in the AI supremacy race, told Nvidia that the new rules had been designed to respond to the risk that its products could be “used or diverted to a supercomputer in China”.
The company said new controls will cost it $ 5.5 billion (4.2 billion pounds sterling) in profit. The actions of the company fell by around 7% on Wednesday.
American restrictions on technological supplies to China, as well as in -depth prices on foreign imports, have exerted enormous pressure on the technological industry, and Nvidia’s actions are among the many in the sector to have dropped strongly in recent weeks. Trump has threatened separate prices on the world semiconductor industry in order to cause manufacturing bases on American soil.
The new restrictions on the NVIDIA chip occurred one day after the semiconductor company said that it would increase up to $ 500 billion in IA infrastructure in the United States over the next four years.
Nvidia designs her chips but subcontracts her production to entrepreneurs such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. TSMC has also promised massive investment projects in the United States, which, according to Trump, would free it from prices. The White House said in a statement that Nvidia’s decision was “Trump in action”.
The Financial Times said Huang also met the founder of Deepseek, Liang Wenfeng, in Beijing, to discuss new conceptions of fleas for the company of AI which would not trigger new American prohibitions. In January, the emergence of Deepseek’s shocks, an AI chatbot, apparently much more advanced than existing competitors, but developed for much less investment, sent the technology industry in a fall and a world sale.
The Chinese Committee of China of US representatives wrote to Nvidia asking him to explain if Deepseek has obtained chips controlled by export to fuel its application of artificial intelligence and, in the affirmative, how. He said the application is a “deep threat” to national security.
Huang publicly said that Nvidia would balance legal compliance and technological advances under Trump, but has promised that nothing will stop the AI global advance. “We will continue to do so and we will be able to do it very well,” said the original entrepreneur in Taiwan last year.
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The arrival of Huang in Beijing caused a stir on Chinese and Taiwanese social media. It is a celebrity figure in Taiwan; During recent visits, large crowds of fans praised him and there have been out of the breath of his route.
Trump prices have triggered chaos in the world markets and among governments, including American allies. After announcing a range of prices against different countries, which he accused of having “torn” the United States by having a trade surplus, Trump later brought them to 10% (except China, which he kept 145%) for a 90-day break. He said governments begged to negotiate with the United States to rewrite trade agreements.
On Thursday, he posted on social networks that there had been “great progress” in talks with Japan the day before. Japan did not expect the American president to get involved in the talks on Wednesday, considering them as a preliminary and investigation mission, a sign that Trump wants to keep close control over negotiations with dozens of countries expected in the coming days and weeks.
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba warned that talks “will not be easy”, but he said that the president had “expressed his desire to give negotiations … the greatest priority”.
Additional report by Jason Tzu Kuan Lu
