Overview

• Huang made a brief trip to Taiwan for meetings and dinner with TSMC leadership, praising the foundry’s central role in NVIDIA’s plans.
• He said the next-generation Rubin (Vera Rubin) AI chips have taped out at TSMC, moving into early trial production.
• He announced GTC Washington, D.C., for Oct. 27–29, where NVIDIA plans to reveal six processors in the Rubin family.
• He denied that H20 contains security backdoors and expressed gratitude for U.S. export licenses enabling H20 sales to China.
• Taiwanese media and an analyst reported the visit also involved talks on tariffs, transfer pricing and global capacity allocation, with no agreements disclosed.