Nvidia is developing a new artificial intelligence chip for China based on its latest Blackwell architecture that will be more powerful than the H20 model. This comes in the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump last week opening the door to the possibility of more advanced Nvidia chips being sold in China. However, sources noted U.S. regulatory approval is reeling under the fear of Washington giving China too much access to U.S. AI technology.

The new chip is tentatively known as the B30A and will use a single-die design likely to deliver half the raw computing power of the more sophisticated dual-die configuration in Nvidia's flagship B300 accelerator card. A single-die design has all the main parts of an integrated circuit on one continuous piece of silicon rather than split across multiple dies.

According to sources, the new chip would have high-bandwidth memory and Nvidia's NVLink technology for fast data transmission between processors, features that are also in the H20, a chip based on the company's older Hopper architecture.

"We evaluate a variety of products for our roadmap, so that we can be prepared to compete to the extent that governments allow," Nvidia said in a statement. "Everything we offer is with the full approval of the applicable authorities and designed solely for beneficial commercial use."

The new chip's specifications are not completely finalised but Nvidia hopes to deliver samples to Chinese clients for testing as early as next month.