NVIDIA Seeks to Continue Exports to China

Here’s a round-up of the latest news in the tug of war between Nvidia and the U.S. government:

NVIDIA Works on China-tailored Chips
According to Taiwan’s Industrial and Commercial Times website on May 3, following the U.S. government’s ban on the export of its H20 chip to China, American chip giant NVIDIA is accelerating the development of a new AI chip that complies with U.S. export regulations in an effort to retain its market share in China. U.S. media reported that NVIDIA has notified three Chinese companies that it is adjusting the design of its AI chips in a bid to continue supplying products to China without violating U.S. export controls.

A U.S. lawmaker is now planning to introduce legislation in coming weeks to verify the location of artificial-intelligence chips like those made by Nvidia after they are sold.

NVIDIA Blasts Anthropic for Supporting U.S. AI Chip Export Controls on China
On May 3, NVIDIA issued a public statement criticizing Anthropic—the American AI startup behind the Claude model—for openly supporting the U.S. government’s move to tighten export restrictions on AI chips to China through the AI Diffusion Framework.

NVIDIA’s statement read: “China has half of the world’s AI researchers and capable AI experts across every layer of the AI stack. The U.S. cannot manipulate regulatory bodies into winning in AI. American companies should focus on innovation and rising to challenges, not on concocting absurd and far-fetched rumors.”

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang’s Annual Compensation Rises to $49.9 Million
On May 1 (local time), NVIDIA disclosed in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that CEO Jensen Huang has received a pay raise for the first time in a decade. His compensation will rise to $49.9 million in 2025. The company’s compensation committee stated in the filing that the raise is justified based on internal pay equity and alignment with other executive base salaries, noting that this is the first increase in Huang’s base salary in ten years.

Editor: Zhiyu Wang