Nvidia's Campaign to Sell AI Chips to China Finally Pays Off Beijing reportedly approved the sale of hundreds of thousands of Nvidia H200 chips to Chinese AI companies--the culmination of a dramatic shift in US tech policy. Jensen Huang sure seems to be having a lot of fun in China this week. The Nvidia CEO has been spotted going for a leisurely bike ride and browsing a fresh fruit stand in Shanghai, as well as enjoying beef hot pot at a humble restaurant in Shenzhen. The carefree tour is not just good optics. Huang has real reason to be feeling upbeat: His long-running lobbying campaign in Washington has, in effect, finally paid off.

'China is going to win the AI race,' Nvidia CEO says: report Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang attends a reception for the 2025 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, at St James' Palace in London on Wednesday. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has warned that China will beat the United States in the artificial intelligence race, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday. China is going to win the AI race, Huang told the newspaper on the sidelines of the Financial Times' Future of AI Summit. As I have long said, China is nanoseconds behind America in AI, Huang said in a statement posted on X late on Wednesday. In a time of both misinformation and too much information, quality journalism is more crucial than ever.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has said that the market for artificial intelligence chips in China could reach 50 billion in the next couple of years, making it crucial for U.S. companies to have access to the country. "It would be a tremendous loss not to be able to address it as an American company," Huang said in an interview on CNBC. "It's going to bring back revenues. It's going to bring back taxes. It's going to create lots of jobs here in the United States."

A day after launching the most hotly anticipated product in the PC world, the Nvidia GeForce 50-series family of graphics cards, Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang appeared on stage at CES to answer reporters' questions. A key one: In a world where AI is increasingly used to generate or interpolate frames, is the end result a world in which PC graphics is entirely AI generated? There's a reason we asked Huang the question. Nvidia says that while DLSS 3 could inject AI-generated frames between every GPU-rendered frame, DLSS 4 can infer three full frames off of a single traditional frame, as Brad Chacos noted in our earlier report on the GeForce 50-series reveal. A day earlier, rival AMD was essentially asked the same question.

Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang on Friday said that artificial general intelligence could -- by some definitions -- arrive in as little as five years. Huang, who heads the world's leading maker of artificial intelligence chips used to create systems like OpenAI's ChatGPT, was responding to a question at an economic forum held at Stanford University about how long it would take to achieve one of Silicon Valley's long-held goals of creating computers that can think like humans. Huang said that the answer largely depends on how the goal is defined. If the definition is the ability to pass human tests, Huang said, artificial general intelligence (AGI) will arrive soon.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on Monday that his company would do its best to supply its artificial intelligence processors to Japan amid extremely high market demand. Japan is rushing to rebuild its once world-leading semiconductor infrastructure and catch up on the development of AI technology. The graphics processing units (GPUs) made by U.S.-based Nvidia dominate the market for AI. "Demand is very high, but I promised the prime minister we will do our very, very best to prioritize Japan's requirements for GPUs," Huang told reporters at Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's official residence in Tokyo. Huang's visit came less than two weeks after Japan passed an extra budget that included about ¥2 trillion ($13.60 billion) earmarked for chip investment.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in a conference call with analysts that regulators would not budge in their opposition to Nvidia's proposed $80 billion acquisition of Arm. "We gave it our best shot, but the headwinds were too strong and we could not get regulators to approve our deal," Huang said. As a result, the company terminated its efforts to buy Arm. Arm's CEO Simon Segars resigned and SoftBank said Arm would attempt an initial public offering instead in the coming year. Huang made the comments in a conference call with analysts after the earnings for the fourth quarter ended January 30 were announced.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has teased his company is'happy to help' if Tesla fails its goal to launch a competitor AI chip. Tesla currently uses Nvidia's silicon for its vehicles. The company's CEO, Elon Musk, said earlier this month that he's a "big fan" of Nvidia but that an in-house AI chip would be able to outperform those of the leading processor manufacturer. During a conference call on Thursday, Huang said its customers are "super excited" about Nvidia's Xavier technology for autonomous machines. He also notes that it's currently in production, whereas Tesla's rival is yet-to-be-seen.

The gamers hoping, wishing, and praying for a new generation of GeForce cards to arrive this week got some bad news from the company's CEO: They won't show up for a "long time." When asked by Tom's Hardware reporter Paul Acorn when the launch for the next GeForce will happen during a closed-door press briefing at Computex 2018, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang responded, "It's a long time from now." Huang had just finished announcing Nvidia's Jetson Xavier, which Huang said is the first computer designed specifically for robotics. Powered by six processors--including a Volta Tensor core GPU, eight ARM64 cores, and deep learning accelerators and image processors--Xavier is the kind of computer that could be used to build a robot to hand you a wrench in the lab, like Tony Stark's Jarvis. Most of Nvidia's press conference focused on deep learning, AI, and other advances the company has been focused on recently, but nothing to feed the insatiable hunger of PC gamers for more performance. Keep in mind, Nvidia has never said when new GeForce graphics cards would arrive, but that hasn't stopped numerous sites from reporting when the hardware would break cover.

Nvidia reported a stellar quarter for the three months ended October 31. Nvidia had $2.6 billion in revenue in the quarter, and $1.5 billion of it came from graphics chips for gaming PCs. But the company's investment in artificial intelligence chips is paying off, with data center growing beyond $500 million in revenue for the first time. Jensen Huang, CEO of Santa Clara, California-based Nvidia, said his company started investing in AI seven years ago, and that its latest AI chips are the result of years of work by several thousand engineers. That has given the company an edge in AI, and other rivals are scrambling to keep up, he said.