On the 15th, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced in an interview with CCTV: “The U.S. government has already approved our export license, and we can start shipping. So we will begin selling the H20 in the Chinese market. I am very much looking forward to shipping the H20 soon, and I am extremely happy about this. This is truly, truly very good news.”
Huang also announced that NVIDIA will introduce a new graphics card called the “RTX Pro.” Huang said: “This graphics card is very important because it is designed specifically for computer graphics, digital twins, and artificial intelligence.”
According to CCTV News, the U.S. government had decided in April this year to ban NVIDIA from selling its H20 chips in the Chinese market. The H20 was launched by NVIDIA to comply with U.S. export restrictions and is an AI accelerator specifically designed for the Chinese market.
The report states that the H20 is based on NVIDIA’s Hopper architecture and features advanced CoWoS packaging technology. The H20 is more suited to vertical model training and inference, but cannot meet the training needs of trillion-parameter large models; its overall performance is slightly higher than the 910B.