Overview
- Reuters reports Nvidia is developing a China-focused Blackwell part, tentatively called B30A, using a single-die design with roughly half the B300’s compute and more performance than H20, with samples targeted as early as next month pending U.S. approval.
- Sources also point to an RTX6000D card tuned for inference with 1,398 GB/s bandwidth, with small-batch deliveries to Chinese clients expected in September under existing export thresholds.
- DeepSeek delayed its R2 model after repeated training failures on Huawei Ascend chips despite on-site support, then moved training to Nvidia hardware and kept Ascend for inference.
- Chinese authorities have reportedly required publicly funded data centers to use more than 50% domestic chips, creating integration hurdles as teams translate CUDA-based stacks to Huawei’s CANN software.
- Nvidia and AMD agreed to remit about 15% of China chip revenue to the U.S. in exchange for export licenses, and President Trump has signaled openness to scaled-down Blackwell sales while Chinese regulators scrutinize H20 purchases for security risks.