Nvidia is developing a new AI chip for China based on its Blackwell architecture, Reuters reports.

The new chip would be more powerful than Nvidia’s current China-specific GPU, the H20.

Tentatively known as the B30A, the chip will use a single-die design to provide around half the compute power offered by Nvidia’s B300 GPU, Reuters said, adding that, like the H20, the B30A would also have high-bandwidth memory and NVLink technology.

Nvidia is reportedly hoping to deliver test samples to China as early as next month.

President Donald Trump first alluded to the fact that Nvidia was looking to make its Blackwell chips available to the Chinese market in a press conference following the announcement that Nvidia and AMD had agreed to pay the US government 15 percent of the revenue generated from the sale of its H20 and MI380 chips as a condition for obtaining export licenses for the semiconductors.

Trump said that he expected Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang would want to meet again in the future to negotiate export licenses for Blackwell chips, with the President saying: “The Blackwell is super-duper advanced. I wouldn’t make a deal with that. That’s the latest and the greatest in the world. Nobody has it. They won’t have it for five years.”

He then went on to say that an agreement for exporting Blackwell chips could be possible if Nvidia “somewhat enhanced [Blackwell] in a negative way.”

In an interview with CNBC this week, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick was asked about the Reuters report, to which he said: “Of course [Huang] would like to sell a new chip to China.

“I’m sure he’s pitching the president all the time... I’ve listened to him pitch the president, and the president listens to our great technology companies, and he’ll decide how he wants to play it.”

However, the reports about Nvidia’s new chip come at a time when the Chinese government is looking to reduce the country’s reliance on overseas chips, with the South China Morning Post reporting that a mandate has been issued to publicly-owned Chinese data center companies requiring them to source more than 50 percent of chips from domestic producers.

The guidelines were published as part of a policy designed to strengthen AI compute resources in China’s financial hub, the reported noted, adding that the initiative was backed by government agencies, including branches of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) in the city and the Shanghai Communications Administration, an agency under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).